THE PALMiS OF BlilTI.'SH IMJlA AND CEYLON. 399 



Habitat. — Eastern Nepal; Sikkim and Jiliotaii, Himalaya, 

 3-6,000 feet ; Khasia Hills, 2-4,000 feet. 



28. CALAMUS FEANUS, Becc. in Hook. F. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 448, 

 Rec. Bet. Surv. hid. II, 206, Ann. Koy. Bot. Gard. Calo. XI, 92, 286. 



Description. — Stem scandent ; inteniodes ^-^ inch in diameter. 

 Leaves rather short, about 3 feet 3 inches long ; ochrea very short, 

 truncate; leaflets few, 6-8, remote, subequidistant, the larger 8-12 

 inches long, 2-2f inches broad, elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 

 7-9-costate, the terminal one free ; petiole very short and rhachis 

 armed with short hooked spines, sheath ^-§ inch long, fiagelli- 

 ferous, cariaceous, green, marbled with black scurfy spots, strongly 

 armed with scattered long spreading or deflexed and short stout 

 reflexed spines. Male spadix ] i inch long, decompound, erect, 

 rigid, with 7 partial inflorescences ; lower spathe tiibular, 2-keeled, 

 mouth compressed ; keels armed with short stout spines ; upper 

 spathe obliquely truncate ; spikelets recurved. Fruit liroadly ovoid, 

 about ^ inch by ^ inch in diameter; beak conical, acute; scales 

 about 1 5-seriate, not channelled on the back, where thej' are opaque 

 and as if pulverulent with a broad rather discoloured band. Seed 

 deeply pitted. 



Habitat. — Teuasserim, 3-5,000 feet high. 



29. CALAMUS GURAUB,B.a.m., in Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 206 

 and 330, t. 175, f. 1 ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 42 ; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. o4 ; Kunth Enum. Ill, 210 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLIII, II, 

 214 ; For. Fl. II, 522 ; Becc. in Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 449, Rec. Bot. Surv. 

 Ind. II, 207, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. XI, 93, 299.— C. mastersianus, 

 Griff. 11. cc. 76 and 84, t. 206 ; Daemonorops (jtiruba var. Hamiltonianus 

 et var. Mastersianus, Mart. 11. cc. ; Walp. 11. cc. 479 and 828 : Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Ill, 100. 



Names.— Sundi Bet, Onabi Bhet, Quabi Bet.(Ass.) ; Kyeinn 

 Kyeingnee (Burm.) 



Description.— Tall, climbing; stem with the sheaths about 

 inch in diameter. Leaves 5-6 feet long; leaflets 12-15 inches 

 long, ^-f inch broad, alternate, equidistant, narrowly linear, mar- 

 gins and 3 costse above setose, midrib usually alone setose beneath, 

 the long slender petiole and rhachis armed with long, brown, 

 recurved and short, conical spines below and on the margins. 

 Sheaths flagelliferous, covered with long flattened spines and 

 crowded smaller ones ; ligule long, membranous (coriaceous, Griffith), 

 lacerate. Spathes glabrous, tube of lower compressed, margins with 

 long spines, back with short ones, limb recurved ; upper spathes 

 nearly unarmed ; flagellum very stout and stoutly armed. Male 

 spadLx elongate, very slender, decompound, spikes 2-3 inches long, 

 very slender, flexiious, spreading, spathellules very small and shallow. 

 Flowei-s distichous, pointing forwards, nch long ; calyx striate 



