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Qi Rheedei. | BECCARI. MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS. 313 
100,. Caraumus Ruerper Griff. in Cale, Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 73, and Palms Brit, 
Ind. 36 and 83; H. Wendl. in Kerch. Les Palm., 237; Hook. f. 
Fl, Brit. Ind. vi, 452; Becc. in Hec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ü, 207. 
Daemonorops Rheedei Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 330; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat., 
iii, 100; Walp. Ann., iii, 479, and v, 828, 
Katu-isjurel, Rheede Hort. Mal. xii, 123, pl. Lxv. 
DrscniPTION.—Scandent slender or of moderate size [D DIM. Sos Lo 4 Leaf- 
sheaths . . . . . .Leaves not cirriferous, petiole and rachis rather densely clawed ; 
leaflets not numerous, narrowly lanceolate, unicostate (?), gradually attenuate at the 
base, acuminate, distinctly grouped in 4 fascicles with long vacant spaces interposed, 
the fascicles of three, of which apparently one leaflet of each group on one side of 
the rachis and two of the other; 5 leatlets terminate the rachis; the two of the 
terminal pair free at the base. Female spadix elongate, clawed in its axial portions, 
with a few dense paniculate remote partial inflorescences which are shorter than the 
flat open spathes. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, about 2 cm. long, 12 mm. broad, 
shortly beaked.—Description from Rheede’s plate. 
Hasirat.—Malabar, Rheede, 
OBSERVATIONS.—It seems allied to C. íravancoricus from which it differs in the 
longer leaves with fewer larger and unicostate (?) leaflets, which point different 
ways; in the more strongly armed leaf-rachis and spadix; and in the larger ellipsoid 
fruit. As is stated in the Flora of British India, I think that a Calamus fruit sent 
from Malabar to Kew by Major Campbell exactly corrresponds to Rheede’s figure. 
This fruit, 20-22 mm. long (without the persistent pedicelliform perianth) and 12-15 
mm. broad, is some-what variable in shape, ovoid, broader at the base than above, 
or ovoid-elliptic, very suddenly contracted at the summit into a short and thick mucro, 
and is furnished at its base with a short acute caudiculum, which penetrates into 
the perianth; scales very numerous, in 27 longitudinal series, not channelled along 
the middle, cinnamon-brown, dusty-puberoulus near their base (under a good lens), 
with a rather elongate darker chestnut-brown shining not very appressed and not 
fimbriate tip, the margins very acute not or indistinctly erosely-toothed; seed 14-15 
mm. long, 9 mm. broad, 5 mm. thick, oblong, flattened, irregularly wrinkled or 
alveolate superficially on the surface with an indistinct and superficial chalazal fovea; 
albumen equable with very superficial intrusion cf the integument; embryo basal. 
The female flowers, judging from the fruiting perianth, are about 6 mm. long; 
this jforms to the fruit a pedicel of about 4 mm. long, has the calyx campanulate, 
35 mm. thick, polished in its lower portion (which is immersed in the involucre), 
with 3 triangular acute teeth; the segments of the corolla, slightly longer than the 
calyx, opaque and finely striately veined outside. 
Rheede (l. c. p. 123) writes that the seed of this. Calamus dried and powdered 
“‘genuum ulcera sanat.” Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 208, on the authority of 
Roxburgh, had at first reduced the Kutu-tsjurel to C. gracilis, but later (l. c. p. 330), 
following Griffith, has considered it as a distinct species. | 
Axx. Rory. Bor. Garp. Catcurra Vor. XI. 
