202 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C. viminalis 
to the axis. Male flowers: narrowly oblong, 4 mm. in length; the calyx strongly 
striately veined, tubular, with 3 short very broad teeth; segments of the corolla 
shining and smooth externally, twice as long as the calyx. Female spadiz somewhat 
shorter than the male one, 60-80 cm, long, with 4-5 partial inflorescences which are 
short., and broad, the largest (the lowest) 6-7 cra. long, with 6-7 spikelets on 
each gide; secondary spathes as in the male spadix ; spikelets slightly arched, hori- 
zontal or somewhat deflexed, attached just at the mouth of their own  spathe 
with a distinct axillary callus, 2-3 cm. long, and with 6-10 flowers on each side ; 
spathels shortly tubular at the base, suddenly enlarged into a spreading broad con- 
cave limb, aeute at one side; involuerophorum concave, with a short limb, inserted 
laterally almost entirely outside its own spathel, at the base of the one above; 
involuere cupular, entire; areola of the neuter flower lunate, relatively large and 
sharply bordered. Female flowers ovoid, about 3 mm. long, horizontally attached; the 
calyx strongly striately veined with 3 broad acute lobes; corolla with acute and 
polished segments one-third longer tian the calyx. Neuter flowers slightly smaller than 
the fertile ones. Fruiting perianth not pedicelliform. Fruit very broadly ovate or sub- 
spheeric, rounded at both ends, but topped by a short beak, 12-13 mm. long 
(including the beak), 9-10 mm. broad; scales in 18 series, dirty yellowish, not very 
shining, superficially channelled along the middle, with a narrow dark-brown 
intramarginal line and scarious erosely toothed margins and tip. Seed irregularly 
globose, with rather smooth surface, very convex on the back and with a slightly 
Gépressed chalazal fovea on the raphal side; albumen equable; embryo basal, 
Hasrrat.-—Australia: Queensland; Endeavour River, Allan Cunningham as from 
Martius; Bloomfield River, Rockingham Bay, Deliachy in Herb. Becc. from F. v. 
"Mueller; Russell River, W. A, Suyer in H. Becc. from F. v. Muelier; Cairns at 
Kamerunga, Warburg No. 19504 in Herb. Berol.;. Mt. Cook near Cooktown and 
Cairns, Z. Diels No. 8293, 8480 in Herb. Beccari. | 
OssERVATION.—This is a very characteristic species, easily distinguished from any 
other, so far as we know at present, by its short leaves with few irregularly 
truncate and præmorse leaflets which resembles those of some species of Ptychosperma. 
PrarE. 56.—Calamus caryotoides AU., Cunn., An intermediate portion .of the 
plant with a spadix bearing ripe fruit; an entire female spadix with very young 
fruit; the apex of another spadix with female flowers; seeds.—From Warburg’s 
specimens No, 19504 in Herb. Berol. | 
44. Carawus viminaLis Willd. Sp. Pl. ii, (1799), 203 (not of inw. 1 
Mart): Lam. Enc. Bot. vi, 306; Rees, ha s 9; ed é 
Schult, Syst. Veg. vii, 2*, 1328 (excl. all cit. except Herb. Kbi. pl. 
55, f. 2, A. B.); Nees v. Esenbeck Plant. Of. t. A. B. (ex. Mart.) 
Blume Rumphia iii, 45 excl. €. viminalis 8 prostratus Bl. and excl. Q, 
viminalis R amplus Mart. (this is reduced by Mart. himself, 1. c. b 
336, under C, buroénsis, to C. Reinwardtii); Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. i iii 
205 (1st edit.), only as to the plate in the Herb. Amb. and "| 
336 under C. buroénsis; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 203. 
