204 ANNALS.OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C.. viminalis 
bracteole, which are united by their bases but do not form a cup. Male 
flowers very small (2°5 mm. long), ovate; the calyx divided almost to the base into 
3 large acute lobes, of which 1-2 are keeled and more or less distinctly 
ciliolate on the back; the corolla twice as long as the calyx, ovate, obtusely 
trigonous, glabrous, divided almost to the base into 3 ovate rather acute lobes, 
superficially striately veined externally ; stamens with linear-subulate and—at the 
apex—inflected filaments ; anthers lanceolate, shortly bilobed at the base; rudimentary 
pistil columnar, 3-dentate, shorter than the filaments. Female spadiz about 2 m. 
long (including the terminal flagellum), simply decompound, with 5-6 partial 
inflorescences, which are shorter than those of the male spadix and bear 3-6 
subdistichous spikelets on each side; primary and secondary spathes as in the 
‘male spadix; spikelets more robust than the male ones, inserted just at the 
mouth of their respective spathe, usually 8-10, but sometimes even 20 cm. long, 
with numerous  bifarious flowers;  spathels usually  furfuraceous, short, broadly 
infundibuliforn from a narrow base, truncate and shortly apiculate at one side 
at the mouth; involucrophorum very short, subdiscoid, supported and embraced 
by its own spathel and attached at the base of the one above; involucre 
orbicular, subdiscoid or shortly cupular; areola of the neuter flower depressedly 
lunate. Female flowers small, about 3 mm. long; the calyx divided into 3 ovate- 
acute, not distinctly striately veined lobes; the corolla as long as the calyx; fila- 
ments of the stamens forming an urceolate cup which is crowned by 6 short teeth. 
Fruiting perianth explanate. Fruit small pisiform, spherical or slightly depressed or 
sometimes subturbinate, 8-9 mm. in diam., crowned by a distinct narrow cylindric 
beak; scales in 15 series, dirty-yellowish, shining, channelled along the middle, not 
bordered by a darker intramarginal line, almost obtuse, sometimes darker at the 
. apex, their margins entire. Seed globose, slightly compressed, about 6 mm, broad and 
4 mm. thick, opaque, convex and deeply pitted on the back, flattish on the raphal 
side, with a round central chalazal fovea; albumen equable; embryo subbasal. 
Hasrrat.—C, viminalis, with its varieties, has a rather wide geographical distrib- 
ution, being found in Java, India, Burma, in the Andamans and in Cochin-China, 
but the plant growing in Java must be considered as the type, and therefore is 
that which I have described above. 
From this island I have seen the specimens collected by Winter near Batavia 
(Leyden Herb.) named C. litoralis by Blume, and others from the same locality in 
the Delessert Herbarium ; these last probably came from Burmann’s collections. 
Zollinger’s No. 2884 comes from the forests of the Province of Banjuwangi, 
also the No. 2652 of the same collector in Herb. De Cand. belongs to this species, 
The native name in Java according to Zollinger is ^ Rotang Glatek.” Blume 
gives that of “ R. Ayer.” Rumphius says that the entire intertwined canes are 
made into cablés for anchors, 
OBSERVATIONS.—À very distinct species because of its leaflets usually pointing 
different ways and being grouped in many fascicles; by the leaf-rachis being armed 
beneath with long straight deflexed spines, which often are ternate and divaricate: 
and by the glomerulate male flowers which form a very short subscorpioid HM 
