EC. Meyenianus ‘BECCARI. MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS. 215 
packed bracteiform  spathels; fruit small, : subobovate-elliptic, 1 cm, long, including 
the beak. | 
The description of C. Haenkeanus Mart. (l. c., 2 edit., 337) agrees pretty well 
with’ the characters of (C. mollis, but the fruit is described as having about 24 
longitudinal series of scales, a rather extraordinary number. However, in the 
description of the same species at p. 212 of the first edition no characters are given 
of the fruit. 
PLATE 61.—Calamus. mollis Blanco, Apex of a leaf and portion of a male spadix 
from Gaudichaud's specimens in Herb.  Delessert, one of the type specimens of Martius, 
Prate 62.—Calamus mollis Blanco. Apex of a leaf and a female partial 
inflorescence in flower (on the lower part of the right hand side of the plate), from 
Cuming’s No. 1478 in the Berlin Herb,; the upper part of a plant with an entire 
leaf and fruit spadix from Warburg's No. 12506 in the Berlin Herb.; the detached 
fruits and seeds near the base of the plate do not belong to C. mollis. 
48, CALAMUS MEYENIANUS ie in Mey. Observ. Bot. in Nov. Act. Acad. 
Caes. Nat. Cur. xvi, (1843), suppl. 1, 425; Bece. in Rec. Bot. 
Surv. Ind. ii, 217. | 
 Dystdrribi —Scandent, slender, Sheathed stem 10-19 mm. in diam. Leaf- 
sheaths flagelliferous, very thinly covered with a brown evanescent. furfuraceous in- 
dumentum, gibbous above, quite unarmed, finely and distinctly striate longitudinally, 
greenish even when dry. crea naked, exsuccous, brittle, deciduous. Leaves not 
cirriferous, in one specimen 70 cm. long including the petiole, which is 10 cm. 
long and almost unarmed, rounded and striate beneath, with 3 shallow narrow 
channels (the mesial the deepest) on the upper face, the margins acute and smooth; 
rachis convex beneath in the lower portion, flattish upwards, and almost regularly 
armed there throughout to the apex along the middle with emall solitary claws; 
leaflets rather numerous (54 in all) conspicuously inequidistant, usually in pairs on 
one side in the lower third of the rachis with the pairs almost opposite and 3-5 cm. 
apart; in the upper third irregularly alternate, more approximate than lower down, 
membranous, linear-lanceolate, narrowed a good deal towards the base, very acuminate 
to the apex, dull, greenish even when dry, almost of the same colour on both surfaces 
their mid-costa acute, naked or sparingly spinulous above, where accompanied on each 
side by some slender secondary nerves; beneath only the mid-costa moderately 
spinulous; margins remotely spinulous; the largest leaflets, those a little above the 
base, 25-27 cm. long by 15-17 mm. in breadth; the lowest narrower but of the same. 
length ; the upper ones gradually shorter but not narrower; the two of the terminal 
pair free at the base, at most 7-8 em. long. Female spadiz simply decompound, 
elongate, flagelliform (not seen entire, but probably flagelliferous at the apex), its 
attenuated basal portion between two partial inflorescences armed on the outer side 
with many scattered or approximate: claws; lowest primary spathe very long, strictly 
sheathing, flattened and acutely two-edged, quite unarmed, truncate at the mouth; 
upper spathes, not seen; partial inflorescences probably few, the two I have seen 
about’ 20 cm. long with 6 spikelets- on each side; secondary  spathes 
