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30. C. BREVISPADIX, n. sp. Stem i inch thick densely armed 

 with long flat acuminate thorns 1 inch long. Leaves long, petiole arm- 

 ed with broad flat dagger-shaped greenish spines, over a foot long stout, 

 rachis rounded in section smooth with few scattered hooks ; flagellum 

 very slender with numerous small hooks in pairs ; leaflets in sub-opposite 

 groups of 4 to 6, with a nude space of about 6 inches between, elongate 

 lanceolate 11 inches long f inch wide, tip acute 5 nerved with a few 

 very short bristles on the margin, and a few longer at the tip. Male 

 spadix slender flowers acute. Female spadix 2 feet long or less erect, 

 few branched, peduncle armed with short fine black thorns in tufts 

 along the edge, sub-triquetous slender 8 inches long. Spathes unarmed 

 papery, lowest one 3 inches long, with a lanceolate acute limb. Branch- 

 es few 3 or 4 inches long. Spikes 2 inches long. Flowers rather 

 distant. Spathellules short funnel-shaped with an acuminate point 

 ribbed and ciliate on the margin when young. Calyx cone-shaped with 

 broad lobes i inch long. Petals hardly longer. Fruit elliptic beaked 

 i inch long dark blackish brown. Scales about 6 rows as broad as 

 long, tips blunt margin minutely lacerate deeply grooved (young). 



Selangor : Semangkok Pass at 4,000 feet elevation (Eidley 12121). 

 Endemic. In some of the leaves the leaflets appear to be regularly 

 equidistant. The spikes when young have very ciliate spathels and 

 spathellules but the hairs fall away as the plant grows. 



31. C. ELEGANS, Becc. Mss. Stem " armed with numerous 

 long pale straight spines." Leaf " petiole 3 inches long with straight 

 spines i inch long, with hooks on the back of the rachis ; flagellum 

 terminal 6 inches long with many hooks ; " leaflets very inaequidistant 

 in sub-opposite fascicles of 3 or 4 lanceolate linear acuminate margins 

 scarious, nerves close, a few seta? on the tip 9 inches long nearly ^ inch 

 wide : rachis brown scurfy. Male spadix very slender 18 inches long 

 ending in a slender flagellum. Spathes unarmed slender tubular, limb 

 very short rounded branches 2. Spikes solitary 3-4 on each branch 

 about 1 inch long. Flowers about 12 small rather distant. Spathel- 

 lules dilate upwards striate. Calyx cup-shaped short, lobes broad and 

 short. Corolla lobes twice as long subacute not striate. 



Perak : Bujong Malacca (Eidley); (Scortechini 316a); Gunong 

 Bubu (Wray 3923). Wray's plant may not be the same. The pas- 

 sages in the description of the species in inverted commas are 

 derived from his specimen. Scortechini's sketch in Kew Herbariun is 

 labelled Calamus Krai. Endemic. 



32. C. viridispinus, Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. t. 458. Stem 20 to 25 

 feet, not thick. Leaf sheath armed with very numerous flat green spines 

 passing with bristles above ; rachis triquetrous with scattered hook- 

 like thorns ending in a flagellum 2^ feet long rather stout with hooks 

 in distant pairs with solitary single hooks between ; leaflets in distant 

 fascicles lanceolate linear acuminate 10 inches long by 1 inch wide 



