CXXXVIII. PALM.15. 807 



p. 345 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 526 ; Brandis, 

 lud. Trees (1906) p. 652. 



Kanaka : common ou the Gbats of N. Kanara, Talbot. — Disteib. India (W. Penin- 

 sula) ; Ceylon. 



2. Calamus Thwaitesii, Becc. ex Hooh. f. Fl. B. I. v. 6 (1892) 

 p. 441. Stem stout, erect, 1^ in. in diam.; leaf-sheaths with close, 

 oblique, raised lines which are thickly set with flattened, stiff, sharp, 

 shining, deflexed, ovate-lanceolate or ensiform spines, 1-2 in. long 

 and with smaller narrower erect ones below each line of large ones. 

 Leaves 4| ft. long ; petioles 7-12 in. long, stout, channelled above, set 

 with imperfect rings of flat spines ; rhachis not produced into a flagellum, 

 with a raised ridge, set beneath with half rings of straight, slightly 

 deflexed, dark brown spines ; leaflets many, 2-2| ft. by l|-2 in., equi- 

 distant or fasciculate, very acute, with ciliate and spinulose margins, 

 3-nerved beneath, with the midrib retrorsely spinulose. Male flowees 

 ovoid, i-i in. long. Spadix up to 20 ft. long, very slender, with very 

 long flagella set with half whorls of short, deflexed, hooked spines. 

 Calyx broadly 3-lobed ; lobes rounded. Petals ovate-oblong, sessile. 

 Pilaments very broad, narrowed at the top into a geniculate tip carrying 

 the versatile anther. Female flowers j in. long, Spadix with stouter 

 branches than the male. Perianth enlarged in fruit. Pruit seated on 

 the sessile enlarged perianth, |-1 in. long including the beak, ellipsoid ; 

 beak stout, conical, straight ; scales rather large, tumid, with a narrow 

 dark-brown border, shallowly channelled in the centre, 5-6 superposed 

 in each vertical row, dull orange-yellow; albumen uniform. Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V. 4, p. 330 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 344 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. IVat. v. 12 (1899) p. 526 ; Brandis, Ind. Trees (1906) p. 652.— 

 Flowers : Feb.-Mar. Vern. Handihet. 



Kanara: common in the evergreen forests at the foot of the Niikund Ghat of 

 N. Kanai-a, Talbot. — Disteib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, 



Calamus Eotang, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 325. Sometimes grown in 

 gardens, abundant in the southern part of the Western Peninsula and 

 in Ceylon, but not indigenous in the Bombay Presidency. When youno- 

 it is a very graceful plant, with pinnate leaves 1-2 ft. long, and with 

 black spines k in. long on the stem and leaf-sheaths, but when it attains 

 a height of 5-6 feet and develops its whip-like flagella armed with 

 numerous sharp recurved thorns it is generally considered time to cut it 

 down. Fl. B. I. V. 6, p. 447 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p, 331 ; Woodr. 

 Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 520 ; Brandis, Ind. Trees (1906) p. 652. 



6. NANNORRHOPS, H. Wendl. 

 A gregarious, tufted, low-growing, glabrous palm, with prostrate, 

 branching, robust rhizomes or stems. Leaves cuneately flabellate, 

 rigid, plicate, split into curved 2-fld segments ; petiole short. Spadix 

 axillary (intrafoUar), much-branched ; spathes tubular, sheathing. 

 Flowers polygamous. Calyx tubular, membranous, unequally 3-lobed. 

 Corolla 3-partite ; segments valvate. Stamens in hermaphrodite flowers 



