312 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (C. travancoricus: 
attached at the base of the one above, calyculiform, slightly concave, subtrigonous, 
3-dentate, Male flowers oblong, cylindraceous or very obsoletely trigonous, obtuse or 
subapiculate, 3°5 mm. long; the calyx campanulate, striately veined, with 3 short 
broadly triangular acute teeth; the corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, 
divided down to its lower third-part into 3 oblong, rather acute, externally polished 
segments; stamens with filaments united by their bases, subulate, inflected at the 
apex in the bud; anthers sagittate, acute; rudimentary ovary as long as the connate 
part of the filaments. Female spadiz simply decompound, similar to the male one 
but with fewer inflorescences (3 in one specimen); these small with a very sinuous 
axis and 4 distichous spikelets on each side; primary and secondary spathes as in 
the male spadix; spikelets small, the larger ones 12-15 mm. long with a very 
sinuous axis and very few (3-4) distant flowers on each side; spathels elongate, 
narrow, angular and curved in their lower portion, infundibuliform, acute or 
acuminate at the summit; involucrophorum shortly pedicelliform, distinctly callous at 
its axilla next to the axis, horizontally subtended by its own spathel and attached 
at the base of the one above, with a very short discoid limb; involuere calyculi- 
form, suborbicular, slightly concave; areola of the neuter flower depressed, linear. 
Female flowers conic-ovoid, 2*5 mm. long; the calyx flat and callous at the base, 
strongly striately veined outside, shortly 3-toothed ; segments of the corolla slightly 
longer than the calyx, lanceolate, acute, polished outside; stamens with filaments 
united by their bases and in the free portion triangular subulate; anthers large, 
sagittate. Neuter flowers narrower but slightly longer than the female ones, with 
the corolla twice as long as the calyx. Fruiting perianth probably pedicelliform, as 
the calyx is already callous at the base during anthesis. Fruit not seen by me: 
in Rheede’s plate globose-ovoid, 8-10 mm. long, mucronulate.— The different parts 
of the plant, except the leaflets, more or less fugaciously rusty-furfuraceous. 
Hasirat.—Lower India: Malabar, Rheede, Rediscovered’ by Major Beddome in 
Travancore (Herb. Kew.) and by Lawson (Herb. Calc.), 
OssERvATIONS.— This species of which Rheede had given a figure which is very 
good for its time, had not been found again till lately. A good male specimen 
existed, however, at Kew from Griffith’s Herbarium bearing the No. 1141 and 
probably coming from Dr. Wight. 
Very distinct by its slender stem; the sheaths armed with slender prickles; the 
short leaves with not numerous, very distinctly grouped narrowly oblanceolate leaflets, 
recalling much in their arrangement those of C. gracilis (to which Rheede’s figure 
had been attributed by Griffith); by the long slender spadices with spathes longer 
than the small inflorescences, enfolding these at first and then more or less bursting 
longitudinally; and by the pedicelliform involucrophorum of the female spikelets. 
Prate 121.—Calamus travancoricus Bedd. An entire leaf: lower surface; portion 
of a female spadix (on the right hand side); an entire male spadix (the above 
figures from Beddome’s specimens in Herb. Kew.); portion of the stem with an 
entire flagellum and base of a leaf, from Lawson’s specimen in Herb.. Calc. 
