288 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (C. bacularis. 
(5-6 mm. apart) rather large (5 mm. long); the calyx campanulate, obsoletely veined, 
its teeth superficial, very broad, acute; the corolla divided down almost to the middle 
into 3 ovate acute, faintly striate segments, these narrower a good deal than the lobes 
of the calyx and about as long; stamens united by their bases as high as the un- 
divided portion of the corolla and forming a cup which is crowned by the suddenly 
subulate filaments. Fruiting perianth pedicelliform, short and thick. Fruit broadly 
ovoid, suddenly contracted into a short conic acute beak and crowned by the very 
small recurved stigmas, 17~18 mm. long, including the beak, 12 mm. in diam.; scales 
reddish-brown or of a cinnamon colour in 15 series, about as long as wide, slightly 
convex, not channelled along the middle, opaque aud as if pulverulent, with a broad 
rather discoloured, more polished band; the apex rather obtuse, distinctly ciliately 
fringed; the margins also ciliately fringed at first, later finely toothed. Seed oblong, 
rounded to both ends, 9-10 mm. long, 6 mm. thick, irregularly and deeply grooved 
on the back with a deeply penetrating elliptic chalazal fovea on the centre of the 
raphal side; albumen subruminate, viz., with superficial intrusion of the integument 
of the seed; embryo basal. 
Hasitat.— Discovered by Sig. Leonardo Fea during his important and fruitfuj 
zoological explorations in February 1887, at 1200-1400 m. above the level of the 
sea, on the west side of the Moolyet range in Tenasserim. 
OxservaTions.—Kvidently related to C. «acanthospathus, but very distinct by its 
smaller dimensions, the armature of the leaf-sheaths and the fruit with opaque not 
channelled scales. 
Puare 106.—Calamus Feanus Bece, Portion of the sheathed stem with an entire 
spadix: another § spadix with almost mature fruit; the summit of a leaf (under- 
surface); detached fruits and seeds.—From Sig. Fea’s specimen in H, Becc, 
89. CALAMUS BacULARIS Becc. Nelle Foreste di Borneo, 609, and in Rec. Bot. 
Surv. Ind. ii, 200. 
Description.—Not scandent. Stem erect, 2 m. high, as thick as a common 
walking cane. Leaf-sheaths not cirriferous, gradually passing into the petiole, open 
above on the ventral side where densely armed near the mouth with very long 
(4-5 cm.), dark, opaque, rather thickly laminar, rigid, erect spines; in the remaining 
portion of the spathe the spines are smaller and on the ventral side interruptedly 
seriate. Leaves not cirriferous, large, about 2 m. long; petiole very long, in 
one specimen 70 cm. in length, subterete near the base, obsoletely angular, and 
smooth in its upper part, strongly armed from the base to about the middle with 
strong, narrowly laminar, rigid, horizontal spines, of which the lowest are as much as 
3 em. long and, especially on the back, often geminate or ternate and divergent ; 
the upper ones gradually diminishing in length; rachis quite smooth on both surfaces, 
acutely bifaced above, roundish lower down and flat upwards beneath; leaflets 
numerous, equidistant, very regularly inserted at an angle of 45°, 18-20 mm. apart, 
