BECCARI, MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS, 79 
20-23 mm. long, blackish, shining, globose, ventricose and conically acute. Seed 
angular. 
Borneo. 
37. C. flonbundus Griff.—Not very highly scandent.  Sheathed stem 2~2°5 cm. 
in diam. or smaller. Leaf-sheaths densely armed with very unequal, short and long 
subulate spines, Ocrea densely bristly-hispid. ^ Leaves comparatively short (6-1 m.); 
the petiole rather long and robust, armed with straight, often long spines; rachis 
irregularly armed with a few, strong and long, solitary, suddenly deflexed spines. 
Jets few, 6-10 on each side at most, very inequidistant, more or less approximate 
in groups of 2-3 on each side, narrowly lanceolate, 3-sub-5-costulate, the coste 
(3 or 5) bristly spinulous above, beneath the mid-costa and the side costs occasionally 
bristly, the two terminal leaflets larger than the others, highly connate. Male spadiz 
ultra-decompound, elongate. Female spadiz simply decompound with few partial 
inflorescences; primary spathes elongate, tubular, closely sheathing, often longitudinally 
split and open in their terminal portion on the ventral side. F uiting perianth 
explanate. Fruit subspheric, 9-10 mm. in diam. 
North-East India. 
C. floribundus var. depauperatus Bece.—Subscandent, small and delicate.  Sheathed 
stem 5-6 mm, in diam. Ocrea densely hispid. Leaves small, with very few leaflets 
(6-8 in all); petiole and rachis armed only with very small scattered claws. | 
Assam:  North-East India. 
38. C. interruptus Bece.—Scandent. ^ Sheathed stem 15-20 mm. in diam. Leaf- 
sheaths gradually passing into the petiole, armed with a few strong, scattered, broad- 
based 15-20 mm, long, straight and subulate spines. Leaves 1°5 m. long; the petiole 
rather long, deeply channelled above. Leaflets about 15 on each side in 4-5 distant 
fascicles of 2-3 on each side, narrowly lanceolate, 25-35 cm. long, 25-3 em. broad 
unicostate with 2-3 secondary nerves on each side of the mid-costa, smooth also 
at the margins, those of the terminal pair somewhat shorter than the others and 
rather highly connate. 
N. W. New Guinea. 
C. interruptus var. docilis Bece.—Leaf-sheaths totally unarmed. 
N. W. New Guinea, 
89. €. dioicus Lour.—Scandent, very slender. Sheathed stem 4-5 mm, in diam, 
Leaf-sheaths hispid near the mouth, densely beset with very unequal, slender, straight 
spines. aves short, 25-40 cm. long; the petiole almost obsolete. Leaflets very 
inequidistant, more or less distinctly grouped, 8-11 in all, of which 4 are much 
approximate at the apex and 4 at the base, linear-lanceolate, 10-20 «em. long, 
11-15 mm. broad, with 3 and sometimes 2 additional slender coste, ail bristly 
above, naked beneath; the two terminal leaflets free at the base, Female spadiz very 
slender, filiform. Fruiting perianth shortly but distinctly pedicelliform. Fruit globular 
9 mm. long, 8-85 mm. broad, with a small cylindric beak, 
Cochin-China. 
