NOTES ON PHILIPPINE PALMS, II. 625 



A very peculiar species belonging to the group of V. paluatris, but with a 

 seed having a ruminate albumen and with the leaflets equidistant, lanceolate, and 

 5-costulate. It is related to C. Arugda. Of this species I have seen only a leaf, 

 the summit of a spadix, and a few fruits. 



Calamus mindorensis Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 235. 



This species was originally described from the female plant only. Male 

 specimens have now been collected, also in Mindoro, by M. L. Merritt, in June, 

 1907 For. Bur. (1111. It is a commercial rattan. Native name lumaliii. 



It is a very high-seandent plant. The specimen seen by me lias a 

 sheathed stem 5 em in diameter. The leaves are about 2 m long and 

 terminate in a very robust cirrus; the petiole is almost obsolete; the 

 leaflets are as already described (I. c.) Male spadix forming a large, 

 compound and diffuse panicle, 2 m in length, glabrous in all parts, divided 

 into several triple-branched, partial inflorescences; primary spathes thinly 

 coriaceous, greenish-yellow, tubular, tightly sheathing, smooth; the first 

 spathe is 15 cm long, and about 3 cm broad, flattened, two-edged, the 

 edges very sharp and spinous above, horizontally truncate and fringed 

 with paleaceous scales at the mouth, prolonged at one side into an 

 elongate, triangular, dorsally-keelcd and spinous point. The partial in- 

 florescences are llexuous, very long and slender, one, belonging to the 

 lower part of the panicle, is L.2 m in length, with its axial part 5 to 6 

 mm thick at the base and with about L2 branches, distically inserted on 

 each side; secondary spathes tubular, tightly sheathing, 3 to 4 cm long, 

 smooth, entire, truncate and also filiate at the mouth, and prolonged at 

 one side into a triangular acute point; the secondary branches are in- 

 serted outside the mouth of their respective spathes, and have a distinct 

 axillary callus, they are slender, llexuous, 2 to 2.5 mm thick, 30 cm long, 

 or thereabouts, and bear numerous distichously arranged spikelets; the 

 tertiary spathes are smooth, elongate-infundibuliform, 10 to 15 nun long, 

 truncate and ciliate at the mouth like the others, prolonged at one side 

 into a triangular point which subtends their respective spikelets. The 

 Spikelets are spreading, arched, usually 2 cm long, or at times shorter, 

 comb-like, hearing about 20, very approximate, exactly hilarious flowers 

 on each side, and when measured with the flowers are about mm broad; 

 spatbels very short, very closely packed, concave and almost boat-shaped, 

 obtuse, and dellexed ; involucre formed by two concave bracteoles united 

 by their bases, and immersed in their respective; spatbels which contribute 

 with the involucre to form a small cup to their respective flowers. 

 Flowers in contact one with the other, the full grown buds 2.5 to 3 mm 

 long, cylindraeeous, apiculate ; the calyx lias 3, deltoid, acute, deeply 

 striate teeth; the corolla is twice as long as the calyx. 



Calamus trispermus Becc. in Perkins Fragm. Fl. Philip. (1904) 46, et in 

 Ann. Bot. Card. Calcutta 11: tab. 180. 



Of this species, which was described from very incomplete material. I have seen 

 recently in the Kew Herbarium, a fine specimen with an entire fruiting spadix, 

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