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Ind. II, 207 : Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. XI, 95, 310; Rleede Hort. Mai. 

 XII, t. 64. — C. gracilis {non Roxb.) Grifl'. Palms Brit. Ind. 64 [quoad tab. 

 Rheedeanam tantum). 



Name. — Tsjeru tsjtirel (M.al.). 



Description. — Stem very slender, scandent. Leaves 18-24 inches 

 long ; leaflets 4-6 inches long, ^-f inch broad, broadest about or 

 above the middle and thence tapering to a capillary point, in dis- 

 tant opposite groups of 3-5, narrowly oblanceolate, thin ; costae 3, 

 very slender, naked above, sparsely setulose beneath ; rhachis and 

 petiole very slender, armed with small straight and recurved 

 spines ; sheath armed with slender, straight, flattened prickles ; 

 petiole 4-G inches long, dorsally rounded, mai'gins acute, much 

 compressed towards the base and there chieflj^ spiny. Spadix 2-3 

 feet long, slender, flagelliferous ; peduncle short, flattened, young 

 white scurfy, margins shortly spiny. Inflorescences about 2 inches 

 long, shorter than the membranous flat spathes, male decompound 

 with spreading very slender branches bearing short, flexuous, 

 almost capillar}^ spikes of flowers ^ inch long ; female inflorescence 

 with simple, distichous, recurved spikes and rather larger flowers. 

 Lower spathes tubular, compressed at the base, with shortl}^ spi- 

 nous angles, produced into a long, membranovis, sheathing lamina ; 

 upper spathes and spathels tubular, obliquely truncate, spathellules 

 short, acute, calyx strongly striate ; corolla twice as long as the 

 calyx, not striate. 



Habitat. — Deccan Peninsula ; from Malabar to Travancore. 



36. C. RHEEDEl, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 73 ; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 36, 83 ; Hook. Bl. Brit. Ind. VI, 452 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 653 ; Becc. 

 in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. II, 207 ; Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. XI, 95, 313.— 

 Daemonorop& rheedii, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 330; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Ill, 100 ; Walp. Ann. Ill, 479, V, 828 ; Rheede Hort. Mai. XII, t. 65. 



Name. — Katu tsjurel (Mai,). 



Description. — Leaflets in very distant groups of 3 on a long 

 rhachis armed with scattered, short, recurved spines, linear-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate. Fruiting spadix with the flat open acute spathes 

 longer than the ovoid dense clusters of ellipsoid or oblong fruits. 



This plant is onl}^ known from llheede's plate and has never been 

 described from living or dried specimens. 



Habitat. — Malabar. 



Uses. — The seed of this Calamus dried and powdered ' genuum 

 ulcera sanat ' (Rheede). 



37. C. HUEGELIANUS, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 338 ; Walp. Ann. 

 HI, 488, V, 831 ; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 452 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 652 ; 

 Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. II, 207 ; Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. XI, 100. 

 314.— C. wightii, Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 102, t. 216 G.—C. melanolepis, H, 

 Wendl. in Kerch. Palm. 2'67 .— Dae77ionoro])s melanolepis, Mart. Hist. Nat. 

 Palm. Ill, 331, t. 175, f. XI ; 342 under C. dioicus and t. 116, f. XI ; Walp. 



. CO. 481 and 829. 



