Calamus. | ' — CXXXIII. PALM X. 135 
This species was comprised by Martius amongst those which were insufficiently 
known ennmerated after his 4th and last division of the genus, but incautiously 
Placed by Wendland and Drude wnder that division, characterised by the presence of 
I and tendrils terminating the leaves; the C. australis has lora but no leaf 
2. C. Muelleri, Wendl. and Drude in Linnea, xxxix. 193.—S 
covered with closely appressed or adnate leaf-sheaths very densely 
i : ; 
each with 3 or 4 to 10 or 12 branches or spikes and almost or quite 
unarmed. Lora slender, 1 to 2 ft. long, with numerous hooked prickles. 
Outer perianth-segments in the males 1 line, inner segments 2 lines 
long. Stamens inserted on a thick disk. Staminodia in the females of 
the = of the perfect stamens, the filaments shortly united in a ring, 
the anthers without pollen. Fruit globular, 5 to 6 lines diameter. 
Greensland, Brisbane River, F. Mueller. : : 
. ales. Clarence River, Beckler ; Richmond River, Henderson. 
C radicalis, Wendl. and Drude in Linn xxxix. 195, is described only from a 
ou leaf or rather a portion of a leaf and a lorum, closely resembling those of 
ei elleri, except that the leaf is at least 24 ft. long and has 42 segments ae = 
© Gat cts 2" whether it be the leaf of a barren luxuriant stem of €. Muelleri 
oa distinct species.—North of Port Mackay, Nernst. 
the € prickles as in (y Muelleri. Inflorescence long and loose, but 
artial panicles not distant as in that species.—Fruits much 
sp 
full ai above 3 lines diameter in our specimens, but perhaps not 
Grafton, « land. Endeavour River and Bloomfield Rivulet between that and Cape 
| Ground P. alm," 4, Cunningham. 
(Li 2. KENTIA, Blume. 
* i 1 2 . K K: en- 
tionsis, 4. Se eda, Hydriastele, and Hedyscepe, Wendl. and Drude 
...,Oneeious in the same spadix, sessile in the notches 
le -ot bá 
m male one later developed in the same notch, the upper 
vu imbri Sometimes solit , Male flowers: Ou rianth of 3 
; broad or media segments, iuner longer of 3 valvate 
