BECCARI. MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS. 95 
98. C. leucotes Becc.-—Apparently scandent. Sheathed stem 2 cm. in diam. 
Leaf-sheaths very densely armed with very inequal, small and large, ascendent spines. 
Verea short. Leaves rather robust and large; petiole robust and long. Leaflets few, 
grouped, with very long vacant spaces interposed, firmly papyraceous, lanceolate or 
elliptic-lanceolate, up to 40 cm. long and 5°5 cm. broad, plicate many costate, green 
above, covered with a crustaceous chalky coating beneath. Male spadiz rather 
elongate, rigid, with a rather robust axis; partial inflorescences strict, cupressiform, 
much shorter than the primary spathes, these elongate, open, flat; male flowers 
3 mm. long, acute, | 
Burma. 
99. C.  travancoricus Bedd.—Scandent. Sheathed stem 7-10 mm. in diam. 
Leaf-sheaihs armed with slender, sometimes bristly spines. Leaves 40-50 cm. long; 
petiole 5-7 cm. long, rachis armed with slender claws, Leaflets narrowly oblanceo- 
late, 15-18 cm. long, 10-15 mm. broad, finely 3-sub-5-costulate, 20-30 in all, 
distinctly approximate in fascicles of 3-5 on each side, all in one plane, and not 
pointing in different directions, the groups of one side opposite with those of the 
other side and 3-10 cm. apart. Spadices slender, elongate, with a slender aculeo- 
late flagellum at their summit; primary spathes elongate, longer than the small partial 
inflorescences, enfolding these at first and then more or less bursting longitudinally. 
Male spadiz ultradecompound ; spikelets very small (7-8 mm. long) and delicate, with 
strongly zig-zag sinuous axis and 4-5 distichous flowers on each side.  Female-spadix 
simply decompound; spikelets 12-15 mm. long at most, with 3-4 distant flowers 
on each side; involucrophorum shortly pedicelliform. Fruit globose, ovoid, 
mucronulate, 8-10 mm. long. 
Lower India. 
100. C. Rheedei Griff.—Scandent and apparently of moderate size. Leaf-rachis 
armed with rather robust claws. Leaflets pointing in different directions, distinctly 
approximate in pairs on each side, the pairs opposite and forming groups of 4, 
with Jong vacant spaces interposed, narrowly lanceolate, unicostate. Fruit ovoid 
or ellipsoid, about 2 cm. long, 12 mm. broad, shortly beaked. | 
Lower India. 
7101. €. Hugelianus Mart.—SAeathed stem about 3 cm. in diam. Leaves large; 
petiole stout, almost equally convex on both surfaces. Leaflets numerous equidistant, 
uarrowly ensiform, up to 70 em. long, subshining on both surfaces, with 3 distinct 
and more or less bristly costz above, glabrous beneath or with a few bristles on 
the mid-costa ; margins very distantly ciliolate-spinulous. Female spadiz very long, 
terminating in an excessively long and robust clawed flagellum; primary  spathes 
very elongate and closely sheathing, prickly all round in their upper part; spikelets 
arched. Fimale flowers 6 mm. long, pointing upwards, Fruit almost spheric, 
15-18 mm. in diam, very shortly beaked. Scaks in 21 series, black, shining, 
not or very indistinctly channelled along the middle. 5 
Lower India, jo 
