208 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. Ce. siamensis 
rightly identified his C. fasciculatus with Rumphius Palmijuncus viminalis (Herb. Amb. 
v, t. 55, f. 2, A, B) of which he says that the figure agrees pretty well with 
this species but not with his description. 
In the Palms of British India are quoted by Griffith as representations of 
€, fasciculatus Roxb. the plates cxcA, f. 2 and cxcv, A and B. The first of 
these three plates doubtless reproduces a fruiting spadix of C, viminalis, as the plate 
cxcvB reproduces one of its characteristic leaves. It seems also to me, notwith- 
standing the doubts expressed by Griffith, that the portion of spadix accompanying that 
leaf belongs to C. viminalis, but not so the plate cxcvA, which has nothing to do 
with C. viminalis. This plate is one of those reproduced from Roxburgh’s drawings, and 
it seems to me to represent C. Rotang Roxb. that is C. Roxburghit Griff.; see observa- 
tions on this species, 
As €. fasciculatus is one of the commonest Rotangs in Cochinchina, it would seem 
rather strange that Loureiro has not mentioned this species which, however, I have been 
unable to recognize in any ot the very imperfect diagnoses of that author. In some 
characters it would correspond to C. rudentum, but this is described with the stem “nec 
nitidus," i,e, with opaque surface, while the canes of C, viminalis are shining or 
vitreous, 
|. PrarE 57.—C. viminalis fasciculatus var. bengalensis. Terminal portion of a leaf; 
two intermediate leaflets; partial inflorescence with male flowers (on the left side of 
the plate) and apex of a fruit spadix (in the upper part of the plate), from 
specimens from Dacca collected by C, B. Clarke (in Herb. Becc.); a spikelet (at the 
base of the plate) with full-grown fruit; detached seeds (one longitudinally cut) 
from Dinapur, (C. B. Clarke in Herb. Becc.), | 
C. viminalis fasciculatus var. cochinchinensis. Leaf-sheaths with the base of a 
leaf-and of a spadix; an intermediate portion of a leaf, a male spikelet and a 
spikelet with mature fruit (all of these figures on the right hand side); from Pierre's 
specimens No. 4848 in Herb. Becc. | | 
PLATE 58.—O. viminalis fasciculatus var. andamanicus. Portion of the sheathed stem | 
with the base of the leaves and the first portion of a flagellum; an intermediate 
portion of a leaf (from Man's specimens in Herb, Becc.); partial Inflorescence with 
female flowers, and another inflorescence with mature fruit, detached fruit and seed 
(from specimens of the Caleutta Herbarium). 
45. Catamus stamensis Becc, in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 203, 
Description.—Scandent, of moderate size. Sheathed stem 17 mm. in diam. Leaf- 
sheaths gibbous above, armed with many pale, subulate, laminar, straight or flexuose 
solitary or confluent or obliquely seriate spines, of which the dapi quéo d uk 
long, but mixed with numerous much smaller ones, Ocrea about 1 cm. long dPy-inerti 
branous, ultimately brittle and deciduous. Leaves not cirriferous ; abit. 1l m. in 
length; petiole very short (2-3 cm. long), flat above, armed at tlie sides ar à 
few long, flat, straight, horizontal or deflexed spines, and on the roundish back 
with many other similar but shorter spines; rachis acutely bifaced and spinulous 
above, armed beneath with straight deflexed spines (a8 much as 15-20 mm. long) 
