BECCARI. MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS. 89 
75. C. gogolensis Bece,—Scandent. Sheathed stem about 2 cm. in diam. Leaf. 
sheaths armed with scattered unequal subtuberculiform or laminar spines as much as 
15-20 mm. long.  Ocrea 8-10 cm. long, dry and ultimately fibrous, obtuse. Leaves 
about 1 m. long; petiole 12 cm. long (in one specimen). Leaflets not very 
numerous, conspicuously grouped in fascicles of 2-3 on each side, with long vacant 
spaces interposed, ensiform or narrowly lanceolate-ensiform, 30-35 cm. long, 2-2'5 
cm. broad, with 3 costze which have a few bristles above; beneath the mid-costa only 
bristly spinulous near the apex; 4 leaflets are approximate at the summit, the two 
terminal confluent to the middle and somewhat shorter, but not narrower than the 
others. 
Eastern New Guinea. 
76. C. tenuis Roxb,—Scandent, Sheathed stem 1-2 cm, in diam.  Leafsheath 
more or less armed with very broad-based spines, which often form transverse crests by 
their confluent and extended bases. Leaves 60 cm.-1 m. long; petiole 10-15 cm. 
long. Leaflets 20-35 on each side, rather closely set, equidistant, linear-ensiform 
or very narrowly lanceolate, 15-35 cm. long, 15 mm. broad, tricostate; the 3 coste 
bristly above, and beneath only the mid-costa sparingly spinulous; often the mid-costa 
provided at the base on its upper surface with a rigid spinule. Male spadiz very 
long, ultradecompound ; the largest spikelets 2-3 cm. long and with two series of 
6-10 flowers, which resemble those of some species of Digitaria, are quite exsert 
from the involucres, 4 mm. long, oblong, and obsoletely trigonous. Female spadiz 
simply decompound ; partial inflorescences few, the upper ones very short, the lowest 
15-20 cm. long with 7-10 arcuate spikelets on each side; flowers of young spikelets 
distinctly 4-seriate, each female flower being accompanied by a well-developed neuter 
flower. Fruiting perianth distinctly pedicelliform. Fruit globose, 10-11 mm. in diam, 
shortly acutely beaked. Scales in 15 series, narrowly channelled along the middle. 
Seed globose. 
N. India, Burma; Cochin-China. 
77. C. horrens Bl.—Scandent. Sheathed stem 1-2 em. in diam.  Leaf-sheaths 
armed with conspicuously broad-based, scattered, straight, subulate spines, Leaves about 
1 m. long; petiole rather short, about 15 em. long, flat and smooth above, convex 
and armed beneath along the middle with black-tipped, straight, slightly deflexed but 
not hooked spines, of which a few are 1-2 cm. long, and others much shorter. 
Leaflets numerous, equidistant, 3-costate, linear-ensiform or very narrowly lanceolate; the 
9 coste bristly above, beneath only the mid-costa sparsely bristly spinulous; almost 
all leaflets furnished on the mid-costa on the upper surface near the base with a rigid 
spinule.—Probably this is only a Javan form of C. tenuts. 
Java. 
78. €. Godefroyi Becc,—Scandent, Sheathed stem 15 mm. in diam. Leaf-sheaths 
armed with broad-based, black-tipped spines. eaves about 60 cm. long, quite 
epetiolate. Leaflets 15-16 on each side, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, with only a 
distinct sparingly spinulous costa above; those a little above tne base (the largest) 
30-35 cm. long, 2:5 cm. broad, the others speedily and gradually shorter, but not 
narrower, the two of the terminal pair (the smallest) free at the base. Female spadu 
strict, flagelliform, with very few remote small partial inflorescences; spikelets small, 
Ann, Roy. Bor, Garp. CarcurTA Vor. XI. 
