302 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C. nitidus. 
. - Hasrrat.—Bengal, Assam, the Khasia Hills, Silhet, Chittagong and Burma. 
Hamilton gives the locality of Jelpigore in the prov. of Rungpoor (N. Bengal) lat. 
26° 30° for the type specimens. I have seen examples from the following localities: 
Khasya ranges, Wallich No. 8614 Herb. Kew.; Assam, @rifith, Jenkins; on the banks 
of the Dhunsiri, and Naga Hills, G. Mann; iu Cachar, R. D. Keenan in Herb. Kew.; 
and on the Chatter Chur Hills, G. Mann in Herb. Becc.; at Doodputli, Hooker & 
Thomson in Herb. Kew.; in Chittagong at Paroha, Gamble; at Seetakoond and 
Kaji-ke-nath, Hooker & Thomson in Herb. Kew.; S. E. Bengal at Noakally at the 
mouth of the Megna Hooker § Thomson in Herb. Kew.; Silhet, Hooker § Thomson in 
Herb. Kew.—Native names ‘‘Onabi Bhet” (G. Mann.) ‘‘Sundi Bet" and ‘ Quabi 
Bet" (Gamble) in Assam. ' Kyeingnee" (Gamble) in Burma. 
OBSERVATIONS, —A very variable plant on account of its rather wide distribution 
in India, but well characterised amongst the species of the group by the leaves 
with numerous narrow equidistant subtricostate not shining and  concolorous leaflets ; 
by the spadices with very elongate broadly linear spathes (when expanded), which 
are longer than the respective partial inflorescences; and by the small sphaeric 
pisiform fruit. 
I believe that no possible doubt can remain as to the identity of C. Master 
sianus Griff. with C, Guruba Ham. 
Prate 114.—Calamus Guruba Ham.—An entire male spadix; portion of the upper 
part of a leaf (lower surface) and another portion from near the  base.—From a 
specimen collected by Mr. G. Mann in March 1886 on the Chatter Chur Hills in 
Cachar (Herb. Beco.). 
Prate 115.—Calamus Guruba Ham.—Leaf-sheath with the base of a leaf and a 
fruit spadix; portion of a female spadix in flower; the summit of a leaf (lower 
surface); detached fruits and seeds.—From specimens collected on the Naga Hills in 
Assam by G. Mann (H. Becc.), 
94. Carawus NrTIDUS Mart. Hist, Wat. Palm. iii (lst edit), 211 and 334; 
Kunth Enum. Pl. iii, 211; Walp. Ann. iii, 484 and v, 830; Griff. 
in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 49 and Palms Brit. Ind. 59; Miq. Fl. 
Ind. Bat. ii, 117; Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 449. 
DescrietioN.—Probably scandent and slender. Leafsheaths 
e. » « Leaves 
not es about 60-70 cm. long (their base not 
seen by me); petiole 
. ; rachis glabrescent, acute and bifaced above, armed beneath along 
the middle with solitary relatively long and slender suddenly deflexed claws; 
leaflets numerous, equidistant, alternate or  subopposite, closely set (15-18 mm. 
apart), narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, almost equally narrowed to both ends, 
acute at the base, subulately acuminate at the summit, thinly papyraceous, subshin- 
ing on both surfaces, barely paler beneath; their mid-costa very acute above, where 
bristly from the middle upwards, and accompanied on each side by two slender 
secondary nerves which are bristly from the base, therefore the upper surface is 
furnished with five bristly nerves; beneath the mid-costa is not prominent an 
