l. Muelleri | BECCARI. MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS. 199 
The main characters of C. Kingianus are the short leaves with a relatively long 
petiole; the very few lanceolate leaflets, which are distinctly fascicled, 3- or sub-5 
coBtate ; the two terminal free at the base; the male spadix with partial inflor« 
escences terminating in a spikelet longer than the side ones which are elongate 
with many distant flowers. 
Prate 53.—Calamus Kingianus Becc. The entire type-specimen in Herb. Cale. 
42. Catamus MurLLERG H. Wendl. in lett. to F. v. Muell; H. Wendl. & 
Drude in Linnea, xxxix. (1875), 193, pl. ii, f. 1-8; H. Wendl. in 
Kerch. Les Palm. 237; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii, 134; F. v. Muell. Census 
Austr. Pl. 119; Becc. Malesia i, 88, and in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind, ii, 
202; Bailey in Queensl, Fl. 1686. | 
C. australis (not of Mart.) F. v. Mueller Fragm. Phyt. Austr. v, 
49 (fide Wendl. & Drude 1l. c.). : 
Description.—Scandent, slender, © Sheathed stem 6-8 mm. in diam, Leaf-sheaths 
flagelliferous, not gibbous above, rusty-furfuraceous, entirely covered with ascendent or 
spreading chestnut-brown (ultimately deciduous?) bristles, which are 6-7 mm. long 
at most, and become closer, longer and erect near the mouth of the sheath.  Ocerea 
very short (a few mm. long) horizontally truncate, very densely bristly-spinulous 
like the  leaf-sheaths, ^ Leaf-sheath flagella filiform, rather rigid, armed with very 
slender scattered claws. Leaves not cirriferous, short (about 30 cm. long); petiole 
almost obsolete or very short, trigonous, bristly-spinulous at the sides, bat chiefly 
underneath; rachis rather densely furfuraceous like the  petiole, trigonous, bifaced 
and acute above, flattish underneath, where sparsely and irregularly armed at the 
sides and along the middle with slender scattered recurved spines, which change 
towards the summit into small claws; leaflets few (11-14 in all) very irregularly set, 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, almost equally attenuate to both ends, acute at the 
base, subulately acuminate at the apex, thinly papyraceous, about the same colour on 
both surfaces, almost shining, 3-sub-5-costulate, the mid-costa slightly stronger than the 
side ones, all naked on both surfaces or sometimes the mid-costa furnished near the 
base on the upper surface with a few (1-4) pale, weak, 5-7 mm. long spicule; trans- 
verse veinlets rather sharp and approximate; margins ciliated with small remote spread 
ing spinules; the largest leaflets, the mesial, 18-20 cm. long and 16-24 mm, broad, 
8-4 of those nearer the base usually approximate and inserted very near to the sheath; 
the 4 uppermost also approximate and the two terminal free or more or less connate 
at the base. Male spadiz . . . . . Female spadiz supradecompound, elongate, 
flagelliform, very slender, with very few, remote partial inflorescences; primary spathes 
very elongate, tubular, very closely sheathing, rather densely aculeolate, bristly at the 
mouth; the lowermost slightly compressed, the others cylindraceous; partial inflor- 
escences furnished with a filiform flattened peduncular portion, the largest among them 
{the lowest) 10-15 cm. long with 6-7 spikelets on each side; secondary spathes very 
closely sheathing, tubular, slightly enlarged above, subtrigonous, smooth or aculeolate 
in their upper part, truncate and ciliolate at the mouth, where acute at one side; 
spikelets inserted above the mouth of their own spathe, with a very distinct, axillary 
callus; the largest (the lowest) 3-6 cm. long, with 8-12 flowers on each side; the 
