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lanceolate acuminate limb at their summit; partial inflorescences (when in: flower) 
arising erect from inside their own spathe, rather rigid, the lower ones the largest, 
15-20 cm. long, and with a very small and short caudiculum at their summit, 
furnished with 5-6 spikelets on each side; the upper ones shorter, the terminal 
with 3-4 spikelets in all; secondary spathes tubular-infundibuliform, 8-15 mm, 
long, unarmed, finely striately veined, obliquely truncate, ciliate and entire at the 
mouth, prolonged at one side into a triangular subulate point; spikelets inserted just 
at the mouth of their own spathe, rather thick and short, erecto-patent when in 
flower, slightly arched, all of about the same dimensions, the largest, the lower ones 
2:5-3 em. long, with 8-10 flowers on each side, the upper ones with rather 
fewer flowers; spathels very closely packed, concave, broad, bracteiform, striately 
veined and prolonged at one side into a triangular subulate deflexed point; 
involucrophorum supported by the spathel, irregularly cupular, more or less unilaterally 
evolute; involucre also cupular, strongly veined, more or less irregular or unilaterally 
evolute; the spathels and the involucres more or less ciliate at the margin; areola 
of the neuter flower depressedly lunate, somewhat concave, with very sharp and 
subwinged borders. Flowers very crowded, distinctly 4-seriate in young spikelets 
on account of the conspicuous neuter flowers. Female flowers conical-ovoid and acute 
when in bud, 3 mm. long; the calyx shortly cylindraceous, smooth and callous at 
the base, coarsely veined on the tube, its teeth short, broad, with thickened scarious 
margins; corolla one-third longer than the calyx, the segments ovate-lanceolate acute, 
Neuier flowers almost as long as the female ones, but thinner and with the corolla 
a good deal longer than the calyx. Fruit unknown.—The leaf-sheaths, the petiole 
and rachis more or less covered in youth with a brown furfuraceous detachable 
indumentum. 
Hasitat.—Lower India. Discovered by Sir D. Brandis, in February 1882, at 
1500 alt, on the Ghats near Courtalum in Travancore. 
Oxservations.—A very distinct and remarkable species, by its short leaves with 
few elongate-lanceolate clustered leaflets; the petiole and rachis armed with remote 
straight solitary and long spines; and the mouth of the leaf-sheaths and the ocrea: 
furnished with long bristly spiculae. 
Pirate 102.—Calamus Brandisii Bece, The summit of the stem with an entire leaf; 
two detached female flowering spadices.—From Brandis’s specimen in Herb, Becc. 
85. CALAMUS sALICIFOLIUS Bece. in Rec. Bott. Surv. Ind. i, 206. 
Descrirtion.—Bushy, very small, 1-2 m. high. Sheathed stem 6-8 mm. in 
diam. Leaf-sheaths (of the upper part of the fertile stem) often furnished, when not 
bearing spadices, with a very rudimentary flagellum which sometimes is not more than 
1 cm. in length, gibbous above, striate longitudinally, armed (sometimes very sparingly) 
with scattered solitary, horizontal, rigid, subulate, straight, dark-tipped spines which are 
5-10 em. long and rest on a swollen pale base; with these spines are often intermingled 
other short and subtuberculiform prickles, usually more numerous near the base of the 
petiole. Ocrea ‘truncate, very short, 3-5 mm. long, bristly-hispid. Leaves not 
cirtiferous, but with diminutive leaflets:at the apex, small, 20-30 em. long; petiole very 
