C. Rotang.] BECCARI. MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS ‘CALAMUS. 269 
preserved with the seed, where, however, the nature of the albumen cannot exactly be 
recognized. Supposing that tle seed be with homogeneous albumen, I have placed 
this near C. tenuis, which it much resembles, differing, however, in its totally 
epetiolate leaves; but it also apparently approaches C. Diepenhorstii, which, however, 
belongs to a group where the seed is deeply ruminated. 
PLATE 96.—Calamus Godefroyi Bece, Portion of a sheathed stem with an entire 
female spadix; lower portion of a leaf (upper surface); summit of a leaf (under 
surface); fragments of the fruit.—From the authentic specimen in the Herbarium at 
Kew. N 
79. Catamus Rorane Linn, Sp, Pl. ist edit. 325 and 2nd edit, 463 (the Ceylon 
plant only and excl. syn. Hort. Malab. and Herb. Amboin.); N. L. 
Burm. Fl Ind, 84; Houtt. Nat. Hist. ii, 4, 445; Willd. Sp. Pl. ii, 
202 (excl. syn. Lour.); Lam. illustr. t. 770, f. 1; Roem. et Schult. 
Syst. Veget, vii, 2, 1322 (excl. all cit. but Linn, and Willd.); Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. ii, 777; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii, (1st edit.) 208 and 334, 
t. 116, f. 8 and t. zxxu, f. xm; Blume Rumphia iii, 33; Walp. 
Ann. iii, 484 and v, 830; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 117; Gamble Man. 
Ind. Timbers, 423; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi 417; Bece. in Ree. 
Bot, Surv. Ind. ii, 200. 
C. Roxburghii Griff in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 43 and Palms Brit. Ind. 
55, t. cxcv A (under C. fasciculatus) and t. cxcu (by misprint CXII).; 
Thw. Enum. Plant. Zeyl. 330, | 
C. monoecus Roxb. Hort. Beng. 73 ex Ind. Kew. Suppl. I. 
C. mouoicus Roxb. Fl. Ind, 783; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii (1st edit.) 209 
and 534 (excl. descr. of Wallich No. 8604?); Griff. in Cale. Journ. 
Nat. Hist. v, 48 and Palms Brit. Ind. 58; Kunth Enum. Pl. iii, 
208; Waip. Ann. iii, 484 and v, 839. 
C. Scipionum Law. (in part) Encycl. Bot. 304 (excl. syn. Lour, and Rheede). . 
Arundo Rotang Zeylanica spinosissima, major fructibus rotundis, etc. J. Burm. 
Thes. Zeyl. 36; Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 209, 468; Herm. Mus. Zeyl. 59. 
Arundo nucifera Rotang dicta, fructu spadicei coloris  striis purpureis venuste 
tesseliato, Pluk. Almag. 53 (excel. syn. Clus,), ! ! 
Pheenicoscorpiurus s. Heliotropium Palmites spinosum Pluk, Phytogr. t. 106, 4. 
1'2 (excl. Marcgr.). | 
Arundo Rotang dicta Pison. Ind. Orient. Mant. 188. 
Arundo Indica versicolor flexilis, C. Bauh. Pin. 18, IV; J. Bauh. Hist. Plant. 
ii. 489 ; Raj. Hist. Plant. i. 1277. | 
DrscRiPTI0N.— High scandent, rather slender. Sheathed stem 8-16 mm. in diam. 
Leaf-sheath gibbous above, glabrous, more or less armed with straight, obliquely inserted, 
