C. Hookerianug] .  BECCARL MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS. . 907 
‘the upper ones gradually shorter and narrower, and with an almost obtuse and 
bristly-penicillate apex; the two of the terminal pair very narrow, quite free at the 
base; margins very minutely, very appressedly, and often indistinctly spinulous; 
transverse veinlets not very conspicuous, weak and much interrupted. Male spadiz 
TTA Female spadiz very long, slender, flagelliform, simply  decompound, 
armed on the back of the attenuated  unsheathed axial portion, between two partial 
inflorescences, with strong solitary aggregate or half-whorled claws; lower primary 
apathes cesu 3» 5; Upper primary spathes very long, narrow, cylindrical, tubular, 
very loosely  sheathing, often split longitudinally upward, sprinkled with short 
aculei, truncate, entire and acute on one side at the mouth; partial inflorescences 
excessively long, in one specimen 1°5 m. long with 10 spikelets on each side, 
slender, aud with a filiform aculeolate appendix at its apex; secondary spathes 
very long, very narrowly tubular-cylindraceous, suddenly narrowed near the base, 
very closely sheathing, decreasing iu length from the base of the inflorescence: 
upwards, the lowest 10 cm., the upper ones 5 cm. long, usually armed externally 
near the base with a few solitary or aggregate and subseriate claws, and in 
the upper part with very small tuberculiform spinules or almost unarmed, entir® 
obliquely truncate and acute at one side at the mouth; spikelets attached at, 
or a few millimetres above, the mouth of their respective spathe, horizontal 
or deflexed by a very. conspicuous axillary callus, thickly filiform and rigid, 
zig-zag sinuous between the insertion. of each flower; the largest ones, the 
lowest, 10-15 cm. long, with 10-15 distichous rather remote flowers on each side; 
the upper ones shorter, 4-5 cm. long with a proportionate number of flowers; 
spathels asymmetrically infundibuliform, 4-5 mm. long, not or very slightly 
veined, glabrous, truncate, entire, slightly prolonged at one side into a very short 
point; involuerophorum almost wholly exserted from its own sputhel and laterally 
attached to the base of the one above, shallowly cupular, subdiscoid with a very 
short limb; involucre very shallowly cupular, moulded on the involucrophorum, 
irregularly and obscurely lobulate at the margin; areola of the neuter flower callous, 
lunate, very sharply bordered. Female flowers small, 3 mm. long. Fruiting perionth 
not distinctly forming a pedicel to the young fruit, but callous at the base; its 
calyx split down almost to the. callous base into 3 ovate lobes; its corolla divided a 
‘little beyond the middle into 3 segments as long as the lobes of the calyx but a 
little narrower; stamens with filaments united by their bases and  elongately 
triangular and subulate in the free portion. Fruit (very young) almost horizontally 
attached to the spikelets, subglobose-ovate, broadly conical at the top, 9-i0 mm. long, 
5 mm. in diam.; scalesin 18 series, not channelled along the middle, yellowish 
brown at the base, chestnut-brown in the anterior portion, finely erosely toothed 
on tbe margins and mainly at the summit: of its triangular acute tip, Seed (immature) 
subglobose, with equable ‘albumen, ! 
HasraT.—The native country of this species is uncertain, as some of the speci- 
‘mens from which the description is derived are labelled as coming from Borneo, while 
ethers appear to have been collected on the Coromandel coast. The great simil- 
arity, however, of C, Hookerianus with .C. pseudo-tenuis leads me to suppose India a 
more probable home than Borneo for the species. ! 
Asn. Rox. Bor. Garp. Catcurra Vou. XI. 
