C. Metzianus) BECCARI. .MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS. 291 
. 61, Carawus Merzranus Sehlecht.: in - Linnea, xxvi, (1853), 727; Walp. Ann. 
v, 856; Hook, f.: Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 462; Becc. in Ree. Bot. Surv: 
Ind. ii, 217. | | 
C. rudentum (not of Lour.) Mart. Hist, Nat. Palm. iii, 340. 
- Desesteron, —Stem and leaf-sheaths not seen, but very probably as in C. IOS A 
Leaves mot seen entire; rachis (of the upper portion) more  or.less furfuraceous, 
acutely trigonous, .bifaced and naked above, armed throughout up to the. base of 
the terminal leaflets with solitary claws, which have & pale, relatively long and 
suddenly deflexed point ; leaflets numerous, equidistant, 3 cm. apart on each side, 
linear-lanceolate. narrówing to the base and gradually acuminate- into -a long and 
very slender apex; the largest and lowest of the portion of the leaf seen by me 
(a terminal portion, about 44 cm. long and probably one-third of the entire leaf) 
25-27 cm, long, and 15 mm. in width, glabrous. and almost of the same colour . on 
both surfaces, with 3 costule of which the central is stronger than the side ones 
and is bristly spinulous from the middle upwards on both surfaces, but mainly 
beneath where the bristles are longer; other nerves naked; margins slightly 
thickened by a nerve running along and finely ciliately MG mainly towards 
the apex; upper leaflets gradually smaller, shorter and more, bristly-penicillate: than 
the others at the apex; the. two of the terminal pair about 10 cm. long, very 
narrow and entirely free at the base. Male spadiz . . . . . Female .spadiz 
elongate, flagelliform ; primary spathes very long, narrow, very closely sheathing, 
armed with numerous small deflexed scattered aculei, obliquely truncate at the 
mouth and prolonged ' at one side into a short triangular point; the axial portion 
between two partial — inflorescences (lower portion of the spàthes) elongate, flat 
and smooth inside, convex and rather strongly armed with solitary and scattered 
or more or less aggregate and ternate black-tipped claws on the back; partial 
inflorescences inserted above the mouth’ of their respective spathes with a very 
distinct axillary callus, very elongate and with many distichous spikelets on each 
side;. secondary spathes very narrowly  tubular-infundibuliform, about) 2 cm. long, 
smooth or with very few spinules upwards,, narrow at the base, . where: flat on 
the inner side, obliquely truncate and entire at the mouth and extended at one side 
into a triangular point; spikelets attached just alove the mouth of their own  spathe, 
strongly arched and recurved ; the largest, the lowest, 3°5-4 cni, long, with 8-9 flowers 
on each side; the uppermost shorter and with fewer flowers; spathels shortly and 
broadly tefandibcliform, narrowed to the base a good deal, truncate and entire at 
the mouth, scarcely apiculate at one side, coriaceous, not or indistinctly. nerved 
and scaly-furfuraceous externally; involucrophorum almost wholly immersed in its own 
spathel and attached at the base of the one above, subdimidiately. cupular with 
unequal margin, not or indistinctly two-toothed and not very acutely :two-kecled on 
the side next to the axis; involucre more or less cupular, with very unequal ‘margin 
and often unilaterally evolute; areola of the neuter flower lunate, rather sharply 
bordered, Female flowers about ,3 mm. long. Fruiting perianth not pedicelliform, 
its calyx split almost to the base into three ovate, rather thick and not very dis- 
tinctly striately veined lobes; its ‘corolla with the segments ovate, acute, narrower 
than, the lobes. of the calyx, but. as. long, -rusty: and: scaly-furfuraceous -externally. 
