BECCARI MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS. | 101 
coste, Spadiz (female?) about 1 m. long, with 4-5 remote partial inflorescences 
spikelets arched, deflexed. Fruit pisiform, shortly beaked. Scales straw coloured, 
Moluccas, 
127. C. Cuthbertsonii Becc,—Small and slender. Leaves about 25 cm. long, not 
cirriferous, Leaflets few (9 in all in two specimens) of which 4 approximate at 
the summit, the others scattered, 10-13 cm. long, 10-13 mm. broad, narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, unicostate, those of the terminal pair connate up to about 
the middle. Female spadiz short, rigid with few small erect, 6-7 cm. long, partial 
inflorescences; spikelets 18-20 mm. long with 6-8 flowers in all, biseriate and 
pointing upwards; involucrophorum subdiscoid, shortly pedicellate. Fruiting perianth 
pedicelliform. Fruit broadly ovate-elliptic, about 12 mm. long, 8 mm. broad, 
suddenly beaked. Scales reddish-brown, faintly channelled. Seed with  equable 
albumen. 
British New Guinea. ; 
128. C. spathulatus Becc,—Slender, scandent. Sheathed stem 10-12 mm. in diam. 
Leaf-sheaths very thickly coriaceous, yellowish like the other parts of the plant, armed 
with short semiconic ascendent spines. Leaves sub- or feebly cirriferous; petiole 
short. Leaflets very few (5 or more), inequidistant, oblong-obovate or spathulate, 
strongly concaye-convex, about 20 cm. long, 6-7 cm, broad, 3-5-costate, smooth 
on both surfaces; margins quite smooth, thickened. Female spadiz flagelliform, with 
a slender aculeolate rather short terminal appendix; spikelets distichous, with a 
distinct axillary callus, slightly arched, 2:5-6 cm. long, with 8-15  subhorizontal 
flowers on each side. Fruiting  perianth shortly pedicelliform. Fruit ovoid-elliptic, 
topped by 2 cylindricous 3 mm. long beak, 12 mm. long, 7 mm. broad. Scales 
very light coloured, narrowly channelled. Seed oblong, 8 mm. long, coarsely pitted; 
albumen equable ; embryo basal. | 
The Malayan Peninsula. 
C. spathulatus var. robustus Bece.—Sheathed stem 20-22 mm. in diam. Leaf. 
sheath flagella up to 2 m, in length. Leaves 1-1:8 m. long, subcirriferous. Leaflets 
about 5 on each side of the rachis, some of them up to 40 em. in length, a few of 
the summit smaller, semi-abortive and decurrent along the aculeolate rachis. Female 
spadir robust, partial inflorescences about 30 em, long, with about 10 spikelets on 
each side. Fruit about 15 mm, long. 
The Malayan Peninsula. 
129. C. Martianus Becc.—Seandent, very slender. Leaf-sheaths yellowish like the 
other parts of the plant, armed with very small semi:conic ascendent spines. Leaves 
small, impari-pinnate or subcirriferous, petiole obsolete, Leaflets about 10 in all, 
very inequidistant, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 14-15 cm. long, 18-20 
mm. broad, sub-5-costulate, margins quite smooth. Male spadiz very slender, with 
3-4 remote partial inflorescences and terminating in a filiform aculeolate flagellum; 
spikelets 3-3°5 cm. long, with 5-6 very remote horizontal flowers on each side, 
inserted outside the mouth of their own spathe with a distinct axillary callus. 
Pulo Penang. 
