998 ANNALS. OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. — [Q. Hookerianus 
A partial inflorescence of a female spadix from Wight’s Herbarium (No. 2758 in 
Herb,  Petrop.) collected on the Nilgiris Hills in April 1847 is lm. 
long and bears on each side 10 spikelets, of which the largest is 28 em. in length. 
In the specimen from the Gudalees Ghat, collected by Gamble, the leaf-sheath, gibbous 
above, is about 2:5 em. in diam., and shows traces of having been densely tawny- 
furfuraceous when young and is armed with straight, fat, subulate, pale, rather short, 
scattered or partially seriate spines; the petiole is 20 cm. long, remotely clawed 
beneath along the middle, and armed at the sides on both surfaces with some flat 
straight spines which are intermingled with others smaller and tuberculiform. At the 
base of the petiole near the ocrea stands a very long ascendent straight spine. — 
Apparently not differing from the above is a specimen from Goodaloor given to me 
by Mr. C. B. Clarke, consisting in a male partial inflorescence and the apex of a 
leaf; this specimen, however, somewhat differs from the others in the very short 
secondary spikelets, hardly longer than the spathels aud with only 2-3 flowers on 
each side, and these larger than in the Ceylon specimens. 
C. pseudo-tenuis is distinguished in the group by the elongate leaves which 
have numerous equidistant, narrowly lanceolate 3-costate leaflets, the coste being 
bristly-spinulous above; by the leaf-rachis armed beneath with straight spines in the 
lower part and with long-tipped claws upwards; by the partial inflorescences very 
elongate; by the male spadix with compound spikes which bear many very small, very 
short, almost rudimentary subscorpioid spikelets very similar to those of C. viminalis; 
by the female spikelets vermicular, long, flexuose; and by the fruit small, obovate, 
beaked, with scales yellow at the base and red-brown at the tip. | 
Prate 69.—Calamus pseudo-tenuis Bece. An intermediate portion of a leaf (lower 
surface) ; portion of a male spadix and apex of a fruit spadix, from C. P. No. 
2335 in Herb. Petrop.; portion of a. female spadix in flower (on the right-hand side) 
from Wight, No. 2758 in Herb. Webb et Floreuce. ; z 
54. CarnaAMUS: Hooxertanus Bece. 
C. borneensis (not of Miq.) Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Indi, ii, 205. 
DxscmierioN.—Probably very high-scandent, slender or of moderate size. Leaf-sheaths 
«cx ca Leaves elongate, rather large (not seen entire); petiole . . . . > rachis 
acutely trigonous, bifaced and smooth above, in the terminal portion fapsetouily 
tawny-lanuginose, flat below, where sub-regularly armed along the middle with short 
solitary claws; leaflets numerous, equidistant, not very closely set, rather regularl 
alternate, decreasing in length towards the apex, papyraceous, rather rigid de did 
same colour on both surfaces, narrowly linear-ensiform, short] y attenuate T the base, 
gradually acuminate towards the apex, 3-costulate above, the mid-costa more deci 
and prominent than the side costs; and all furnished with a few long brown bristles 
which are bulbous at the base; beneath, the mid-costa not very prominent, more or 
less bristly towards the apex, all the side nerves faint and smooth: | 
leaflets among those seen, which belong to i 
be the upper third.part of the 
; the largest 
the lower portion of what appears to 
entire leaf, 30 cm. long and 13 mm. broad ; 
