340 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C. Blumel. 
PrarE 135.—Calamus tomentosus Becc. Portion of a sheathed stem with base of a 
leaf and of a flagellum; an almost entire female spadix in flower; the summit of a 
leaf, two leaflets from about the middle.—From Scortechini’s No. 431" in Herb. Becc. 
CALAMUS TOMENTOSUS var. KORT orus Bece. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 
209. 
DzescRIPTION.— Smaller, slender. Sheathed stem 1 cm. in diam. Leaf-sheaths almost 
glabrous or partially covered, like the flagella, petiole and leaf-rachis, with very 
small silvery scales, which are visible only with a lens, very sparingly armed with 
small scattered depressed tuberculiform ascendent prickles. Ocrea about 1 em. long. 
Leaves about 50 cent. long; with 5-6 leaflets on each side; rachis slightly prolonged 
beyond the two ultimate leaflets; these subshining in the upper surface, 5-7-costulate, 
14 cm. long, 5 cm. broad, the margins not ciliate (or with the cilia deciduous?), | 
symmetric acute and not ansate at the base. T 
Hasrrat.—The Malayan Peninsula; on the Gunong Tambang Batak in the 
district of Perak, Scortechint No. 597". Malay name “ Klunen.” 
OssERvATIONS.— Without the intermediate forms nobody would suspect this to be 
only a variety of C. tomentosus, especially on account of the baldness of its sheaths 
upon which only very small scattered chaffy silvery scales similar to those that densely 
cover all the axial parts in the type may be discovered after a careful examination. 
"This variety approaches €. Blumei, but in this the leaflets are distinctly asymmetrical 
and ansate at the base. 
The number 5332 of the Calc. Herb, has a slender stem (17 mm. in diam.) 
is less tomentose and has smaller leaflets than the No. 6993 of the same Herb, 
and of the No. 431° of Scortechini; the specimen mentioned (No. 5332) is however 
larger and more like the type than any other specimen of Scortechini (No. 1255) of 
which I have made a variety intermedius and which forms a passage to the var. 
korthalsiacfolius. 
Pirate 136.—Calamus tomentosus var. korthalsiaefolius Becc, Two portions of 
sheathed stem each with an entire leaf.—From Scortechinis No. 597° in Herb. Bece. 
CALAMUS TOMENTOSUS var, INTERMEDIUS Becc. 
Description—Slender. Sheathed stem 8-10 mm. in diam. Leaf-sheaths, petiole 
and leaf-rachis moderately prickly, not so densely tomentose as in the type and more 
or less covered with small confluent greyish chaffy scales which is also the source of 
the general indumentum in the type-specimens; the leaflets slightly larger than in 
var. korthalsiaefolius and relatively narrower (15 cm. long., 5-5°d cm. broad). 
Hasrrat.—The Malayan Peninsula; on the Gunong Ijuk, Scortechini No. 1255. 
114. Caramus Buiumer Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 209, 
C. rhomboideus var. B. segmentis rigidioribus Bl. Rumphia, iii, 60 (excl. descr. 
spadix and fruit); Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iui, 184. 
€. rhomboideus (not of Bl) Miq. Anal. Bot. Ind. i, 6. 
