274 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (C. Faberii. - 
flowers on each side; the upper ones a good deal shorter (about 2 cm.); the flowers 
inserted at an angle of about 45°. Fruiting perianth ... . . . Fruit (from Hance's 
description) small, ovoid, apiculate, 12 mm. long: scales in 18 series, of a very light 
straw colour, not channelled along the middle, with a narrow dark marginal line; 
seed flattened, coarsely sinuously grooved on the back; chalazal fovea indistinct; 
albumen. equable ; embryo basal. 
- Hasrrat.—Not uncommon in several parts of the Island of Hong-Kong, Hance. 
OBSERVATIONS.—I have seen one of Hance’s specimens, No. 18229 in St. Petersb. 
Herb. It seems allied to C. viminalis, but with equisdistant leaflets. 
Puate 98.—Calamus Walkerii Hance. Basal portion of a female spadix with an 
entire partial inflorescence; an intermediate portion of a leaf. From Hance’s type 
specimen in St. Petersb. Herb. 
81. Catamus F'aserm Becc. sp. n. 
Descriprion.—Apparently scandent and rather slender or of moderate size. Stem- 
and Jleaf-sheaths . . . . . Leaves not cirriferous, apparently about 1 m. long (only 
the summit of one seen by me); petiole . . . . . ; rachis in its terminal portion 
acutely trigonous, bifaced above with acute and smooth upper angle, flat beneath 
where armed with small approximate solitary dark-tipped claws; leaflets numerous, 
equidistant, rather approximate, firmly papyraceous, opaque and subconcolorous on 
both surfaces, linear-lanceolate, attenuated to the base » gradually acuminate to the 
summit, with 3 distinct bristly costae above; beneath the mid-costa only with a few 
long bristles; transverse veinlets not very approximate, short and much interrupted ; 
the margins, especially the lower one, slightly thickened by a marginal nerve, minutely 
and very appressedly spinulous; the lowest leaflets of the apical portion of the leaf 
seen by me (27 cm. in length and with 11 leaflets on each side) 22 em, long, 
17 mm. broad; the others rather speedily decreasing in length and less acuminate ; 
the two of the terminal pair, the smallest, quite free at the base. Male spadix 
+ + 5. + Female spadiz simply decompound, elongate, flagelliform (apparently 
flagelliferous at its summit) with many remote partial inflorescences, and with the 
attenuated part (base of the spathes) between two partial inflorescences rather 
powerfully armed with solitary or more or less aggregate dark-tipped claws; upper 
primary spathes tubular, elongate, cylindraceous, very closely sheathing, more or less 
prickly, truncate or shortly split at the mouth and slightly prolonged at the summit 
into a short triangular point; partial inflorescences apparently rather numerous 
nserted inside and issuing erect from their respective spathe, rather rigid, pyramidal 
in outline, 12-18 em. long with about 10 spikelets on each side; secondary spathes 
cylindraceous, closely sheathing, unarmed, truncate at the mouth and prolonged at 
one side into a triangular very acute point; spikelets inserted just at or a little 
above the mouth of their own  spathes, slightly arched, horizontal or deflexed 
filiform ; the lower ones 5-6 em, long with 12-18 flowers on each side, the óthery 
speedily deereasing in length, those of the summit very short and with very few 
flowers; spathels cylindraceous at the base, rather suddenly expanded into a short 
truncate infundibuliform limb, distinctly apiculate at one side; involucrophorum 
‘laterally attached outside its own spathel at the base of: the one: above, scale-like, 
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