310 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [(@, travancoricus. 
prickly like the petiole; its axis rigid, 4 mm. thick, subterete or obsoletely angular 
armed externally with solitary or more or less aggregate claws and with rather distant 
partial inflorescences; primary spathes very elongate, longer than the inflorescences 
shortly tubular at the base, flat, open, laminar, broadly linear (14-16. mm. in width) 
upwards, where they are, besides, almost shining, very finely longitudinally striate and 
of an umber-brown colour inside, and paler outside; the lowest spathe about 40 cm. 
long, acutely two-keeled in its lower portion, spinous on the keels, unarmed above; 
partial inflorescences. narrow, densely flowered, strict, erect, paniculate-cupressiform ; 
the two lowest 20 cm. long (the upper ones not seen by me), their axis straight, 
rigid, with many also erect strict cupressiform branchlets, of which the lower ones 
4-5 em, long with 8-10 very slender spikelets on each side; secondary spathes 
small unarmed, tubular, cylindraceous at their base, extended upwards into an erect 
subscarious exsuccous broadly triangular and acuminate limb; spikelets very small, with 
a filiform rigid zig-zag sinuous axis, inserted at the mouth of their own spathe, not 
callous in the axilla, the largest, the lower ones, 10-12 mm. long with 6-7 flowers 
on each side; spathels very small, infundibuliform, attenuate and angular at the base, 
enlarged above into a patent concave triangular acute limb; involucre subtended by its 
own spathel and attached at the base of the one above, concave, calyculiform, subtrilo- 
bate, the lobes acute. Male flowers ascendent, inserted at a very acute angle, small, 
3 mm. long, narrowly ovate, obsoletely trigonous, acute or subacuminate; the calyx 
atriately veined, divided down almost to the middle into 3 broad semiovate acute 
lobes, which have broad translucent margins; the corolla twice as long as the calyx, 
its segments acuminate, polished outside.—Other parts unknown. 
Hasirat.—Burma; at Yoonzuleen, lat. 8 N., Sir D. Brandis, March 1880 
(H. Beec.). 
OssERvaTIoNS.— I have seen of this only a portion of the sheathed stem, with 
the base of a male spadix and portions of a leaf. To this species belongs Kurz's 
plate xix l. c. of C. hypoleucus, as that figure has been drawn from the same 
specimen of which Sir D. Brandis has kindly given me a portion. 
C. leucotes is very closely related to C. myrianthus, but it is a much more robust 
plant, with the leaflets distinctly covered by a thin chalky-white coating on their 
lower surface; more rigid male spadix; erect strict cupressiform partial inflorescences 
witn their branchlets "arid spikelets not callous at their insertion and with large 
flowers. 
Pirate 120.—Calamus leucotes Becc. Portion of the stem with base of a leaf 
and lower portion of a male spadix; summit of a leaf; detached leaflets seen from 
the lower surface (right-hand side of the plate) ; i leaflet from the upper surface. — 
From Sir D. Brandis’s authentic specimen in Herb. Beccari, 
99. CALAMUS TRAVANCORICUS Bedd, MS. in Herb. Kew.; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
vi, 452; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 207; 
C. gracilis (not of Roxb.) Griff. Palms Brit, Ind. 64. (as to Rheede’s 
plate only’, | | eH 
