Calamus.] Palmece. 331 



slender flat spines, young scurfy; flagellum of sheath very 

 long, slender, compressed below, thin, cylindric and set with 

 half rings of deflexed hooked spines; leaflets 50 or more, 

 nearly equidistant, 8-12 by |-i in., linear, acuminate, thin, 

 margins setulose, veins 3, remotely setulose on the upper 

 surface ; male spadix, spikes long, slender, decurved ; spathels 

 funnel-shaped, acuminate; male fl. 2-3 together, minute, sub- 

 globose; cal. cupular, striate, lobes acute; pet. sessile, short, 

 polished ; fil. very short ; fem. spadix very long, slender, 

 branches distant, armed with short deflexed spines; spathes 

 flattened, lower elongate, tubular, 2-edged ; fr. ovoid, \-\ in. 

 diam., beak stout, conical, scales 9-12 in a vertical row,, 

 rounded, dull yellow, margins brown, scarious, centre not 

 channelled, endosperm subruminate, embryo basilar. 



Low country ; rare (.''). Matale (Thwaites) ; Lady Horton's Walk. 

 Fl. Jan.-April. 



Also in S. India. 



Description in part from Dr. Trimen's notes of a plant growing in 

 Lady Horton's Walk, May, 1896.— J. D. H. 



3. C. Rotang-,* L. Sp. PL 325 (1753). Wewel, S. Frlampu, T. 



Herm. Mus. 59. Burm. Thes. 36. Fl. Zeyl. n. 468. Moon, Cat. 26. 

 C. Roxbtir^hu, Griff., Thw. Enum. 330. C. P. 3388. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 447. Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. t. 195A, and t. 112, 192 

 (C. Roxdurghii), and t. 195A {C. fascicularis). 



Stem very slender, scandent ; sheaths flagelliferous, spar- 

 ingly armed with short flat spines; 1. i|-2 ft, petiole very 

 short, stout, margined with small straight or recurved spines- 

 with conical laterally compressed bases ; leaflets very many,, 

 equidistant, lower 8-12 by \-\ in., upper gradually smaller, 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-veined, veins naked above or 

 bearing distant bristles sometimes \ in. long, midrib alone 

 setose beneath, margins setulose; male spadix very long, de- 

 compound, flagelliferous, sparingly spinous; spathes elongate, 

 tubular, lower 6-10 by nearly | in. diam., sparingly armed 

 with scattered recurved spines, upper unarmed, scurfy; spikes 

 I- 1 J in., recurved or revolute, bracteoles densely crowded,, 

 cymbiform ; male fl. secund in 3-4 series, ^ in. long, cal. 

 cupular, base thickened, striate, lobes broad, acute ; pet. 

 sessile, smooth, acute; fil. very short, subulate; fem. fl. ^ in. 

 long, scattered along the slender branches of the spadix, cal. 

 conical, tubular, 3-toothed, base dilated, truncate; pet. sessile, 

 tips only exserted ; fr. seated on the minute perianth, sub- 

 globose, \ in. diam., mucronate, scales many in a vertical 



* The Malay name. 



