■/'///; I'.iL.ys OF mil I'lSiH jMfj.i .imj cj-vloa. 



ami luarcesceiit. Fr. o-l i;ni, loii^' ellipsoid. Seed oblong or ovoid, 

 circular in transverse section, h^mbrj^o basilar, eccenti-ic (iig. 7). 



Fl(;. 7. — Calamus eiectus. 



Left : Top part of branch of spailix. 



Right : Part of fruiting- spadix with one fruit (After Griffith). 



Habitat. — Sjdhet, Kliasia Hills, Upper Assam, Chittagong. 

 Uses. — In Sj'lhet the poorer natives use the seeds as a substitute 



for that of Areca (Roxb.). 



CALAMUS ERECTUS, Roxb. var. schizospathus, Becc. in Ann. Roy. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc, XI, l!2.5. — C. schizospathus. Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. V, 32 ; Pabns Brit. Ind. 41, PI. CLXXXVIT ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 

 IH, 3.3i' ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. See. XI (1869), 71 ; Gamble Man. Ind. 

 Timb. 423 ; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind, II, 197. — C. erectus, Becc. (partim) 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 438. t^p 



Names. — Reem (Lepchas), Phekri bet (Sikkim). -I V< 



Description. — Leaflets with a secondary nerve on each side of 

 the mid-rib, sparingly bristly beneath and sometimes also above. 

 3Iale flower with the calyx half (not almost entirely) projecting 

 from the involucres. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



Uses. — According to Gamble the stem is about 5 cm. in 

 diameter with hard wood and closely packed fibro-vascular bundles ; 



the canes, however, are useless. 



CALAMUS ERECTUS, Roxb. var. Urmannieus, Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. 

 Ind. II, 197, and Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. XI, 70 and 126. 



Description. — Female spadix more slender than in the type, 

 produced into a rather long (75 cm.) flagelliform aculeate appendix. 

 Fruit smaller. 



Habitat. — Burma, on the Karen mountains at 1,000 — 1,200 m. 



2. CALAMUS FLAGELLUM, Griff, in Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 

 333, PI. 176, f. IX ; Palms Brit. Ind. 48 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 



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