292 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. LC. ramosissimus* 
rather stout, kept horizontal by the pressure of a conspicuous axillary callus; 
the lowest, the largest, 3-4 em. long, with 8-10 flowers on each side, those of 
the summit very short and very few-flowered; spathes very closely packed, densely 
hairy-furfuraceous, bracteiform, concave, with the point acute and pushed down by 
its flower; involucrophorum subtended by its own spathel, and attached at the base 
of the one above with a conspicuous swollen callus at its axilla, shallowly 
calyculiform, slightly prolonged on the side of the neuter flower; involucre 
calyculiform, slightly concave, undulate at the margin; areola of the neuter flower 
obsvletely lunate with a distinct punctiform scar. Female flowers pectinate or perfectly 
bifarious, almost horizontally inserted, not in contact with one another, ovate- 
conic, 4 mm. long, stout; the calyx somewhat callous, swolien at the base, obsoletely 
veined, with 3 short acute convergent teeth; the corolla with lanceolate acute segments, 
very slightly longer than the calyx. Fruiting perianth not pedicelliform. Fruit (not 
seen mature) with mahogany-red scales; sed . . . . . albumen . . . . o 
embryo . . . . . —The young parts of the spadix, the spathes, spathels and 
involucres are rather densely covered with a removable, partly greyish or silvery, 
and partly rusty scurf. The leaves acquire a brown, and the spathes a reddish- 
cinnamon colour in herbarium specimens. 
Hasitat.—The Malay Peninsula: in the district of Perak, Scortechint No. 217b ; 
and Bukit Hitam in the State of Selangore, H. N. Ridley No. 3839 in Herb. Calc. 
and Herb. Bece. 
OssrRvaATIONs.— The distinctive characters of this Species are the leaves with a 
long petiole, which is armed at the sides with very long horizontal spines, and 
the numerous equidistant narrowly lanceolate 3-costate leaflets ; the straight, not 
flagelliferous, spadices with primary spathes tubular at the base, bursting upwards and 
more or less expanded into an elongate, lanceolate, acumiuate blade, 
The nearest 
ally appears to be C. ramosissimus. 
Prate 108.—Calamus perakensis Bece. Male spadix (on the right hand of the 
plate); an entire female spadix; the summit of a leaf (upper surface); an interme- 
diate portion of a leaf (lower surface). From Scortechini’s specimens, No. 3175 in 
Herb. Becc. 
91. CALAMUS RAMOSISSIMUS Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 78, and Palms 
Brit. India, 87, t. cvi; Walp. Ann. v, 828; H. Wendl, in Kerch 
Les Palm. 237; Hook. f. Fl Brit. Ind. vi, 450; Becc. in Ree, Bot. 
Surv. Ind. ii, 207; s x 
Daemonorops ramosissimus. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii 330; Miq. Fl 
Ind. Bat. iii, 100; Walp. Ann. iii, 479. x 
Descripiion.— Tufted, erect, with the stem short (Scortechini) or from 2 to 5 
m. high and 6-7 cm. in diam. with the sheaths i 
specimens are noted with stem 6-7 m. high and 4 em. in diam. (King’s collect ) 
and subscandent by means of the hooked spines of the leaf-rachis, the plant wantin TO 
leaf-sheath flagella or any other clawed appendix. Leaf-sheaths not 
gradually passing into the petiole, thickly coriaceous, densely arme 
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