332 PabnecB. [Calamus. 



series, pale yellow with a very narrow thin discoloured 

 margin and shallow median channel. 



Dry region ; common in wet places. Fl. Feb., March. 

 Also in Peninsular India. 



4. C rivalis, T/na. ex Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxiii. 268 (1885). 

 Ztla-wel, S. 



C. P. 3914. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 441. 



Stem slender, scandent ; sheaths flagelliferous, copiously 

 armed with straight, flat, lanceolate and subulate, pale spines 

 |-i in, long; 1. about 3 ft. long, petiole armed below with flat and 

 above with stout recurved spines; rhachis not produced into a 

 flagellum scurfy, armed with short recurved spines ; leaflets 

 numerous, 12-18 by ^-§ in., equidistant, linear-lanceolate, coria- 

 ceous, margins setulose, 3-costate beneath, smooth or midrib 

 remotely setulose ; spadix very long, slender, armed with short 

 recurved spines and terminated by a clawed flagellum ; lower 

 spathes or all armed with very short spines, mouth of lowest 

 dilated, lacerate; male spikes i-ii in., recurved, spathels 

 coriaceous, very obliquely cup-shaped, acute; male fl. dis- 

 tichous, crowded, about \ in. long, cal. 3-fid to the middle, 

 cupular; pet. and stam. confluent in a stipes, fil. filiform, anth. 

 oblong ; fern. fl. in larger spikes, less crowded than the males ; 

 fr. \ in. long, broadly ellipsoid with a large conical truncate 

 beak, scales broader than long, about 10 in a vertical series, 

 not channelled, pale yellow, bordered with red-brown. 



Moist low country ; rare. Pasdun Korale (Thwaites) ; Colombo 

 (Ferguson). Fl. Sept. 

 Endemic. 



5. C. delicatulus, Thw. Enuiii. 330 and 431 (1864). Ifara- 

 wel, Ji". 



c. P. 3159- 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 446. 



Stem slender, scandent, internodes with a tuft of erect, white, 

 hair-like prickles 1-2^ in. long below the nodes; sheaths flagel- 

 liferous, sparsely scurfy, beset with many, spreading, flattened, 

 white, short and long linear spines up to 4-5 in. long; 1. 2-3 ft., 

 petiole of lower 2 ft., of upper very short, both furnished with 

 a icw hooked spines, rhachis not produced into a flagellum. 

 scurfy, and with a few straight spines; leaflets many, equi- 

 distant, close-set, 8-10 by ^ in., linear-lanceolate, finely acumi- 

 nate or acute, and hair-pointed, 3-veined, margins and veins on 

 both surfaces with a few long black bristles; spathes tubular, 

 truncate, unarmed, mouth ciliate, spathels tubular, imbricate, 

 truncate, spathellules cupular, minute; spadix polygamo- 



