136 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C. longisetus 
fruit and not pedicelliform, its calyx 3-toothed; its corolla with the petals lanceolate, 
as long as the calyx; its stamens with filaments broadly triangular, suddenly 
subulate and not very highly connate at the base. Fruit elliptic-ovate, when fully 
developed 30-33 mm. long and 15-20 mm, in diam., tapering at both ends, but more 
towards the apex, which is regularly conical and acuminate; scales in 12 longitudinal 
series, slightly convex, not channelled along the middle, longer than broad, yellowish 
in the unexposed part, marked across the centre with a conspicuous, lunate, blackish, 
shining band (giving the fruit the appearance of being mottled like a tiger-skin), 
and prolonged into a triangular, pale, scarious apex, which is conspicuously fringed 
at the margin. Seed oblong, 18 mm. long, 11 mm. broad and a little less in thickness, 
flat at the base, longitudinally 5-7.costate and superficially channelled on the back; 
smooth on the raphal side, where marked with a narrow circular chalazal fovea 
penetrating nearly to the centre; albumen equable; embryo in the middle of the 
base. 
Hasrrar,—Pegu (Grifith), Rangoon (McCicliand in Herb. Kew, Burkill); Hill 
jungle at Port Mouat ravine, Kada Kachan, and Ali Masjid in South Andaman 
(Sir G. King’s collector in Herb. Cale.) Vern. name “Leme” (Burkill). 
Kurz writes that this is common in the evergreen tropieal forests from the 
eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah and  Martaban down to Tenasserim and the 
Andamans, and that it’ is called “Lémé” in Burma and “ Umdah” by the 
Andamanese. From the Audamans I have received some very good specimens 
through Mr. E. H. Man, who says that the natives eat the fruit cooked, and 
employ the leaflets for coverings, and that they give it the name of “ Am,” 
The samples of the canes, which also seem to be employed by the Andamanese, - 
have a polished yellow surface and are from 2:5-3 em. in diam. with joints 25-30 
cm. long. One sterile specimen from the N icobars, which I have seen in the 
Caleutta Herbarium probably belongs to this Species. 
OBSERVATIONS.— Griffith, who has drawn up the description of this Calamus from a 
male plant native of the forests of Pegu and introduced into the Botanic Garden at 
Calcutta, says that it is a “ tufted stemless species, with the habit of young Specimens 
of C. arborescens,” but he adds that it has “the flagellus humifuse or trailing over 
the neighbouring shrubs and armed with the usual prickles.’ From this it might be 
argued that this palm begins to flower when still in a young and stemless state and 
becomes a climber as it grows older. 
Kurz has described his C. tigrinus ( which without hesitation I consider the same 
as C. longisetus) on fruiting spadices only, and says that it is a large scandent 
rattan. It is a very distinct species by its peculiarly spotted fruits, very large male 
spikelets and flowers very much like those of OC. erectus. The male spadix simply 
decompound is not of very common occurrence amongst the Calami. 
PrarE 9.—Calamus longisetus Grif. Male partial inflorescence from a specimen 
in the Cale. Herb. collected at Port Mouat ravine in the South Andamans; partial 
inflorescence with young fruit and lower portion of a leaf from the Andamanese 
specimens forwarded to me by Mr. Man; the portion of a spikelet with ripe fruit, 
