THE I'ALM^ OF j;Ul ll>ilL ISDIA AND ('HYI.ON. I()7 



Fig- 4- Part of stem of Calamus latifoUus. 



Names. — Korak Bent (Beng.); Yamata ( Burm.), Ruebee 

 Greem and Phekori-Bhet (Lepchas). 



Description. — Stem stout, as thick as the thumb. Leaves with 

 the flagellum 10-15 feet; leaflets 1-2 feet long, 1-2^ inches broad, 

 scattered or binate, upper sometimes flabellately clustered or 

 connate at the base, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, o-9-costate, tips 

 setose, margins aculeolate, costa3 naked on both surfaces, cross 

 nervules very many and close ; petiole short or long, sometimes 

 bearing the leaflets far up the flagellum ; rhachis flagelliferous very 

 stout, variousl}^ armed with scattered spines ; sheath densely covered 

 with very short broad whorled spines and a few very large straight 

 flat solitary or whorled ones. Spadix ver}^ large, decompoiTud. 

 Spathes short, subcompressed, sparsely spinous, mouth oblique ; 

 spathels short. Male spikes densely imbricate. Fruiting calyx- 

 sessile, pedicel liform, broadly campanulate, lobes short. Fruit 

 subglobose, pale dull yellow ; scales convex, deeply channelled, 

 shining, margin very narrowl}^ scarious. 



Habitat. — From the Sikkim, Himalaya and Assam (2,0()0 feet) 

 to Tenasserim. 



Flowers. — In November and December. 



CALAMUS LATIFOLIUS, Roxb., viir. marmoratus, Becc. in Ann. lloy. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. XII, 107, 409. 



Veknacular Name. — Ruebee (Lepchas). 



Description. — More slender than the type. Leaf sheaths about 

 2 cm. in diameter, marbled with meitly and dark green spots and 



