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the lobes of the corolla during the anthesis, Fruiting perianth very shortl dicelli 
form, its calyx indurated and callous at the base. Fruit (mature) "dish “oh 
globose-ellipsoid, 10-12 mm. in diam., rounded to both ends, topped A Ur ji or 
acute mucro; scales in 18-20 series, squarrose or not very appressed, almost d 
very superficially channelled along the middle, light straw-coloured, with ide nar 5 
subscarious, erosely-toothed margin and rather acute point. Seed tiid, *r vdd 
compressed laterally with many deep narrow furrows or plicae radiating dee dm 
centre of one of the faces, where is placed the chalazal fovea, to the centre of di 
other face, where is situated the embryo. y 
Hasrrar.—The damp forests of the calcareous region in the south of Java and in 
the Island of Nussa, Kambang, Blume, From Java I have seen some good specimens 
in the Berlin Herbarium, collected by Jagor. It grows also in Sumatra pigra 
Blume (l. c.) and Miquel (Ann. Bot. Ind. i, p. 6.) mention this specia. also bii 
Borneo, but the specimens I have seen as coming from this country differ in many 
respects from the typical ones from Java. In West Java it receives the name M 
“Hooy mukka” and in the eastern part that of “Panjaling tjatjing” (Blume). 
OssrRVATIONS.— This is a very remarkable species closely related to C. ezilis of 
the Malayan peninsula and to other Bornean species. It seems a rather variable 
plant in the dimensions of the leaves and in the size of the fruit, The specimens 
from Sumatra collected by Korthals have more robust leaves than the Javan ones, 
and in one of them I counted about 60 leaflets on each side. 
The seed is placed vertically in the fruit, and in consequence it is not depressed 
as described by Blume, but laterally compressed; the groove on one of the faces, of 
which Blume speaks, is that occupied by the embryo. 
The seed described and figured by Blume, which I have seen, is almost round; 
9 mm. in diam. and 5 mm. thick; that of Jagor’s specimens (perhaps not quite 
mature) is slightly ovoid, 7 mm, long, 5 mm. broad, and 4 mm. thick, but the 
structure is the same as in Blume’s one. : 
I have seen a very incomplete specimen of what Blume has considered as 
C. ciliaris from Borneo. This specimen differs from the typical ones in the leaflets 
less distinctly 3-costate or with a rather strong  mid-costa and the side-nerves 
slender and with shorter bristles than in the type, and in the leaf-rachis armed 
in its lower surface along the middle and also at the sides with numerous approxi- 
mate small claws; the basal portion of the spadix is also aculeolate. I entertain, 
however, some doubts about the locality of this specimen and therefore about the 
presence of C. ciliaris in Borneo. 
C. ciliaris is characterized amongst the allied species by its very small linear 
leaflets, almost equally broad from the base to a little below the summit with 
very numerous excessively fine long cilia at the margin; the hairy-scabrid leaf- 
sheaths, spathes and spathels; and the roundish fruit. 
PLATE. 129.—Calamus ciliaris Bl. Two entire leaves, one with portion of the 
sheathed stem and a flagellum; an almost entire male spadix; mature fruit; seen 
Ann. Roy: Bor. Garp. CarcurrA Vor. XI, 
