$42 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. LC. spectabilis 
species and the fruit spadix of another. I consider however C. Blumei established 
only on the portion of the leaf I havə described above, and reproduced in plate 
137. 
Puare .137.—Calamus Blumei Bee. The summit of a leaf (under-surface). 
From Blume’s authentic specimen of C. rhomboideus var. &, in the Leyden Herb, 
115. Carawus sPecTaBILIS Bl. Rumphia, iii, 55, t. 152; Walp. Ann. iii, 487, 
and v, 831; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 125, and De Palmis Arch. Ind. 
27; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. lnd.ii, 209. 
Descriprion.—Scandent, slender. Sheaihed stem as thick as a finger.  Leaf-sheaths 
covered like the leaf-rachis with a grey detachable scurf, longitudinally striated and 
armed with very short tooth-like spines (Blume). Ocrea unarmed. Leaves not 
cirriferous, about 60 cm, iong; petiole very short, armed with conic-subulate straight 
or also hooked aculei; leaflets few, about 5 on each side, inequidistant but not 
aggregate, irregularly alternate, rather remote, oblong-obovate, somewhat concave or 
spoon-shaped, narrowed to the base and suddenly contracted into a short tip at 
the apex, with 5-7 costae, of which the side ones do not reach the summit and 
evanesce near the margin; 3-4 of them bristly above; margins bristly-ciliate; 
transverse veinlets conspicuous; the largest leaflets, the lowest, 18-20 cm. long 
and 8 cm. broad, the upper ones slightly smaller, the two of the terminal pair 
quite free at the base. Male spadix very long (about 2 met., Blume), ultradecom- 
pound; partial inflorescences numerous, elongate; the one seen by me with about 10 
branchlets on each side; primary spathes . . . . . ; secondary spathes finely 
longitudinally striate, tubular, elongate, infundibuliform, subclavate, closely sheathing, 
obliquely truncate, and entire ciliolate at the mouth, prolonged at one side into 
a triangular erect acute point, armed with very small black-tipped scattered claws. 
branchlets of the partial inflorescences spreading, inserted above the mouth of their 
own spathes with a distinct axillary callus; the lowest, the largest, about 10 cm. 
long, with 8-9 spikelets on each side; tertiary spathes (spathes of the branchlets) un 
armed or nearly so, narrowly tubular-infundibuliform, closely sheathing, truncate 
and entire at the mouth, prolonged at one side into a short patent or deflexed 
point; spikelets filiform, inserted at the mouth of their own spathes with a 
distinct axillary callus, strongly deflexed, the largest, the lowest, 2 cm, long with 
14-15 very approximate flowers on each side; upper spikelets barely shorter; 
spathels bracteiform, concave, broadly ovate, glabrous, strongly striately veined, the 
point acute deflexed; involucre subringent, concave, shallow, obsoletely posticously bi- 
dentate, pushing down its own spathel and laterally attached to the base of the one 
above. Male flowers . . Nuls o Female spadiz and fruit unknown, 7 
HanrrAT,— The voleanie mountains of Barangrang and Tankubang Prahu in the 
Province of Preanger in West Java, Blume, 
OssERvATIONS.— Of the authentic specimen cf this I have seen a portion of a 
male spadix totally stripped of its flowers and a portion of a leaf without its 
sheath and therefore I am unable to make a precise comparison with some Sumatran 
specimens which I consider however as belonging to a distinct variety. 
