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Leaflets very long, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, many-costate, pale, 

 almost white beneath, smooth on both surfaces or with minute 

 bristles on the costaj beneath, margin obscurely aculeolate; rhachis 

 ilorsally rounded, shortly spinous. Male spadix very long, slender, 

 sparsely spinous, spathels tubular, truncate. Inflorescences laxly 

 decompound ; branches very slender ; spike \-\ inch long, zigzag, 

 almost filiform ; spathelhiles minute. Flowers minute, pointing 

 forward, closely imbricate, calyx aciitely 3-lobed, striate ; corolla 

 twice as long, acute, not striate. 

 HABITAT. — Tenasserim : Merp-ui. 



33. C. HYPOLEUCUS, Kurz. For. Fl. II, o23, f.rcl. descr. spad, 

 masc ; Hook Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 451 ; Brandis, Iiul. Trees 653 ; Becc. in llec. 

 Bot. Surv. lud. II, l>07 ; Ann. Uoy. Bot. Gard. Calc. XI, 94, 307. Daemono- 

 rops hypoleucua, Kurz. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLIII, III, 208 (partim). 

 t. XVIII. {e.vd. t. XIX.). 



Description. — Stem slender, scandent, as thick as a goose-quill 

 without the sheaths. Leaves 2-3 feet long, not flagelliferous; 

 sheaths flagelliferous ; leaflets G-9 inches long, alternately and 

 interruptedly approximate by twoes on each side, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, ciliate towards the apex, many-costate, white beneath ; 

 petiole short, armed with long and short conical, straight and 

 recurved spines ; rhachis with scattered recurved spines ; sheaths 

 densely spiny with unequal spines 1 inch long and less. Female 

 spadix 1 2 inches long ; peduncle about 1 inch long, spinous ; 

 spathes oblong-lanceolate, spathels tubular, small, distant. Female 

 flowers distichous ; calj'x 2V inch long, shortly o-lobed ; corolla 

 twice as long, segments acute. 



Habitat. — Burma ; Thoungyeen, 



34. CALAMUS LEUCOTES, Becc. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Card. Calc. 

 XI, 95, 309. — C hi/poleucus, Kurz Fl. Brit. Burm., TI, 523 {quoad gpadic. 

 masc. titntum). — Dcemonorops hypolencus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 XLIII, ii {quoad tab. XIX. tantum). 



Description. — Probably scandent. Sheathed Stem 2 cm. in 

 diameter. Leaf sheaths very densely armed with ver}^ unequal, small 

 and large, ascendent spines. Ochrea short. Leaves rather robust 

 and large ; petiole robust and long. Leaflets few, grouped, with 

 very long vacant spaces interposed, firmly papyraceous, lanceolate 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, up to 40 cm. long and 5*5 cm. broad, plicate, 

 many-costate, green above, covered with a crustaceous chalky coat- 

 ing beneath. Male spathe elongate, rigid, with a robust axis. 

 Partial inflorescences strict, cupressiform, much shorter than the 

 primary spathes ; primary spathes elongate, open, flat. ]\Iale flowers 

 3 mm. long, acute. 



Habitat. — Burma : Yoonzuleen. 



35. C. TRAVANCORICUS, Bedd. mss. in Herb. Kew. ; Hook, Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VI, 452 ; Brandis, Ind. Trees 653; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. 



