316 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C. Qamblei- 
seems to me almost certain that the fruit figured by Martius in the plate 116, f. 
x1, and of which mention is made after the diagnosis of 0, dioicus, belongs also to 
C. Huegelianus. 
Demmorops melanolepis is the first name given to the present species, but as this 
cannot remain in the genus Demonorops, I have adopted the name of C. Huegelianus 
published at an earlier date than that of Wightii. Griffith has not left a description 
of C. Wightii, and this name figures in his large posthumous work in the plato 
ccxv1, C (a reproduction of Dr. Wight’s drawing) with the sole indication:—"' This 
species which was received from Dr. Wight is distinguished from all the foregoing 
by the secund arrangement of the fruit.” In that plate are also represented the 
male flowers which I have not seen. 
Of the authentic specimens of €. Wightii I have seen one in the St. Petersburg 
Herbarium and another in that of Kew, where they were unnamed, but evidently 
they are portions of the same specimen employed in the preparation of the plate 
quoted above. Of C. Hugelianus and of D. melanolepis I have also seen portions of 
the authentic specimens of Martius kindly forwarded to me by the Director of the 
Botanical Garden at Brussels, and I am therefore quite sure that tho three mentioned 
names are synonymous, 
In some of Gamble’s specimens the immature fruit has spadiceous scales with 
chestnut-brown margin and tip, but only in this do they differ from the type, which 
has the fruit scales black even when in a very young stage. 
In some fruits of the St. Petersburg specimen, somewhat larger than usual, I 
have found two seeds flat where in contact and convex on the outer side, 
The diagnostic notes of C, Hluegelianus are the long leaves with equidistant 
numerous narrowly ensiform 3-ccstate leaflets ; the long rigid spadix with a very long - 
and very powerfully clawed flagellum, and few partial rigid pyramidate scorpioid 
inflorescences; the arched spreading spikelets, with a secund arrangement in the 
ce bah the round fruit with very dark not channelled scales; the round 
Prate 122.—Calamus Huegelianus Mart, Portion of the fruit spadix and leaf- 
sheath flagellum; detached seeds, one cut in two halves across the embryo.—From 
Wight's specimen in the St. Petersburg Herb. 
102. Catamus GAMBLE: Becc. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 193, and in Rec 
Bot. Surv. of Ind. ii, 207. > 
Descrirtion.—Very probably scandent and of moderate size. Stem 
Leaf-sheaths . . . . . Leaves large, non-cirriferous; potola oS 56s 
finely striolate longitudinally, bifaeed above and rounded beneath in its inter- 
mediate portion where it is armed along the middle with small solitary claws; leaflets 
numerous, rather remote (6-7 em, apart), firmly papyraceous, green even win 
slightly paler beneath than above; elongate-ensiform or narrowly lanceolate-ensiform 
60-65 cm. long, 25-28 mm. wide, somewhat narrowed to and gradually plicate i 
» 3 rachis 
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