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beak about 3 mm. long, 17 mm. in length including • the 

 beak and perianth, 11 mm. broad. Scales channelled along 

 the middle. 



Habitat. — Kanara. 



;f^OTE. — Tliis is a verj- doubtful species. Beccari thinks it might 

 be a continental form of C. rivalis. 



18. CALAMUS PSEUDO-TENUIS, Becc. in Fl. Brit. Intl. VI, 445 

 (1892) ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. IV, 430 ; Talb. Trees Bomb. eel. 2, 345 ; Brandis, 



Ind. Trees, 652 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. Pres. II, 806. — C. tenuis, Thw. {non 

 Roxb.) Enum. 330 {e.vd. syn.). 



Stem slender, extensively climbing ; sheaths set with many- 

 unequal, straight, fiat, verj'- sharp spines, reaching sometimes 1 

 inch. Leaves about 4 feet long ; petiole 8 inches long, with a few 

 solitary short spreading spines ; rhachis without flagelluin, armed 

 with scattered slender flat spines, scurfy when young ; flagellum 

 of sheath very long, slender, compressed below, thin, cjdindric, 

 and set with half rings of deflexed hooked spines ; leaflets 50 or 

 more, nearly equidistant, 8-15 inches long and f-l inch broad, 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, thin, with setulose margins; veins 

 3-5, remotely setulose on the upper surface. Male spadix with long, 

 slender, decurved spikes ; spathels funnel-shaped, acuminate. 

 Male flowers usually 2-3 together, ^^--^ inch long, subglobose, calyx 

 cupular, striate, lobes acute ; petals sessile, short, polished ; filaments 

 very short. Female flowers : sjjadix very long, slender, branches 

 distant, armed with short deflexed spines ; spathes flattened, the 

 lower elongate, tubular, 2-edged. Fruit ovoid, ^-^ inch in dia- 

 meter ; beak stout, ^ inch long, conical; scales 9-12 in a vertical 

 row, rounded, dull yellow with brown scarious margins ; endosperm 

 subruminate ; embryo basilar. 



Habitat. — Cejdon : Low countrj^, Matale, Ladj^ Horton's Walk. 

 On the Western Ghats from Kanara southwards ; Kanara : common 

 in the evergreen forests at the foot of the Nilkund Ghat of N. 

 Kanara. Madras. Cochin. 



Flowers from Januarj^ to April in Ceylon. 



19. CALAMUS HOOKERIANUS, Becc. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. XI, 

 83, 226. — C. borneensis {non Miq.), Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. II, 205. 



Description. — Apparently high scandent, slender, or of mode- 

 rate size. Leaflets numerous, equidistant, linear-ensiform, with 3 

 bristly ribs on the upper side, the largest 30 cm. long and 13 mm. 

 broad. Female spadix very long and slender, flagelliform ; primary 

 spathes long, closely sheathing ; partial inflorescences very long 

 (up to Hm.) with many remote spikelets on each side ; spikelets 

 filiform, rigid, zigzag sinuous, with the flowers rather remote and 



