200 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. — (0. Muellerit 
appermost much shorter and with fewer flowers; spathes broadly infundibuliform, 
striately veined, truncate and subciliolate at the mouth, apiculate at one side; in- 
volucrophorum inserted at the base of the spathel above its own and with a distinct 
axillary callus, cupular, truncate and ultimately split; involucre cupular, often asym- 
metrically evolute ; areola of the neuter flower rather large, slightly concave with acute 
borders. Flowers horizontally set. Fruiting perianth explanate, its calyx rather coria- 
ceous, at first 3-toothed, later entirely split into 3 parts; corolla divided into 3 ovate- 
lanceolate thinly coriaceous segments one-third longer than the calyx; filaments of 
the stamens forming an urceolate cup which reaches to the middle of the corolla 
and is crowned by 6 triangular teeth. Fruit broadly obovate or subglobose, about 
15 mm. long and 12 mm, broad, rounded at both ends, but topped by a short 
beak; scales in 18 series, dull dirty-yellowish, very faintly channelled along the 
middle and with a very narrow dark-brown intramarginal line margins pale, scarious ; 
tip short, triangular, erose-denticulate. Seed irregularly globose, 9 mm. in the largest 
diam. with a minutely rugulose testa and with a rather deep chalazal fovea about 
the centre on the raphal side; albumen horny, equable; embryo basal. 
HasrraT.—Australia: in Queensland, on the Brisbane River and in Moreton Bay, 
(Wendi, $ Drude); at Laguna Bay, where it is said to be common in certain places 
in the damp forest, Diels No. 8230 in Herb. Berol; Pine River, Hull & Mueller in 
Herb. Kew. In New South Wales on the Richmond River, Henderson in Herb, 
Kew; on the Clarence River, F. v. Mueller in Herb. Beccari. 
OnsERVATIONS,— [his seems a rather variable plant. The basal portion of a leaf 
from the Clarence River specimen has the petiole very short and the rachis densely 
furfuraceous, furnished with deflexed hooked spinules and with rigid subspiny bristles ; 
the basal leaflets (4 in number) are approximate, very narrow, subulately acumináfó, 
11-20 em. long, 12 mm. broad, and bear on their mid-costa 1-4 needle-like, slender, 
straight, erect, 4-7 mm. long spines. The specimen from Pine River has a leaf 
30 em. long with 11 leaflets which are devoid of spines on the mid-costa. In the 
specimen from Laguna Bay the leaflets are larger than in the above mentioned and 
only occasionally a straggling spinule may be seen on their mid-costa. The fruit I 
have described is from the specimen collected by Henderson on the Richmond River, 
Prats 54.—Calamus Muellerii Wendl. An intermediate portion of the stem with 
two entire leaves and the upper portion of a spadix with very young fruit; 
from Diels’s No. 8230 in Herb. Berol. 
Pirate 55.—Calamus Muellerii H. Wendi. The basal portion of a leaf with 4 
leaflets, the spadix and two fruits in the lower right-hand corner, from the Clarence 
River specimen in Herb. Becc.; the partial inflorescence with full-grown fruit and 
the seeds, one entire and ha two halves of one longitudinally cut through the 
embryo, from the specimen from Richmond River in Herb. Kew: the entire leaf 
from the Pine River specimen in Herb. Kew. 
Canawus MUELLERIN var. MAcRosPERMUS Wendl. & Drude in — xxxix, 
(1875), 194, pl. II, f. 1, 9-11. 
. OmsERvATIONs.—1 have not seen a specimen of this variety, of which no Special 
locality is given by its authors, but the dimensions of the fruit assigned by them 
