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acuminate, 3-7-costate, costae very slender and more or less setose 

 above, mai-gins obscurely bristly except at the tip v^here the 

 bristles are long ; petiole very short and rhachis and sheath armed 

 with short hooked spines ; rhachis fugaciousl}^ scurfy; sheaths green, 

 glabrous. Spadix elongate, slender, drooping, flagelliferous. 

 Spathes tubular, acuminate, sparingly spinous, fugaciously brown- 

 scurfy, Tipper unarmed, spathels not imbricate, unarmed. Corolla 

 thrice as long as the calyx. Fruiting calyx sessile, shortly cylin- 

 dric, pedicelliform, lobes very short. Fruit oblong, | inch long ; 

 scales straw-coloured, with or without a narrow, brown border, 

 channelled. Seed wrinkled. 



Habitat. — The Khasia Hills up to 4,000 feet ; Upper Assam ; 

 Oachar ; Chittagong. 



Flowers. — In May. 



40. C. MELAN ACANTHUS, M.&Tt.m&t.^a.i. ^&\m. Ill, m'6, t. 11(3. 

 f. 13 ; and t. Z. XXII, f . X ; Kunth Enum. Ill, 211 ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. V, 49 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 59 ; Walp. Ann. Ill, 484, V, 830 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 119 ; Palm. Archip. Ind. 27 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLIII, 11, 215, t. XX, B ; Hook Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 453 ; Brandis Ind. 

 Trees 652; Becc. Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. II, 208, Ann. Roy, Bot. Gard. Calc. 

 XI, 96, 321 ; Wall. Cat. 8606 B. 



Description. — Scandent. Leaflets many, 6-1 3 inches long, ^ inch 

 broad, upper ones much shorter (2-3 inches), equidistant, mem- 

 branous, linear with capillary tips, 3-costate, shortly setose or 

 naked on the costse beneath, tips sparsely bristly or naked, rhachis 

 with a single row of short re-curved black spines ; sheath with 

 sub-whorled spines. Female spadix decompound, ending in a 

 flagellum. Spathes shoi'tly sparsely spinous, upper nearly unarmed. 

 Fruiting calyx sessile, campanulate, pedicelliform. Fruit ellipsoid, 

 f inch long, shortly beaked, scales greyish yellow with very 

 narrow brown margins, channelled ; albumen deeplj'^ ruminate ; 

 embryo lateral. 



Habitat. — Tenasserim : Chappedong. 



41. CALAMUS ZEYLANICUS, Becc. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 455; 

 Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. 11, 210; Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. XI, 103, 379; 

 Trim. Flor. Cey., IV, 335 — C. rudentum {non Lour.) Moon, Cat. 26 , 

 Thw. Enum. 330 {eai. omnibus smn. at C. P. e.rsicc. No. 2874). 



Names. — Mamewel, Wanderu-wel (Singh.) 



Description. — Stem very stoiit, scandent ; sheaths not flagelli- 

 ferous. Leaves 4-5 feet long; petiole stout, armed with 3 fid 

 recurved spines ; rhachis very stout, its stout flagellun) armed with 

 large, broad, decurved, palmately 5-10-cleft, claw-like, woody 

 spines, broader than the rhachis, young scurfy. Leaflets many, 

 equidistant, ^-2 feet long and 1-1^ inch broad, ensiform, long, 

 acuminate ; veins 3-5, very sparingly setulose above, naked 

 beneath. Lower spathe acute, armed with very short scattered 



