348 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [ C. Qumingianus. 
very adpressed tip, light-yellowish with narrow paler scarious erosely toothed margin. 
Seed orbicular, somewhat compressed, 6-7 mm, broad, 3:5 mm, thick, with a small 
round deep chalazal fovea in the centre of the raphal side, covered with a thin 
erustaceous (once fleshy) detachable integument, otherwise with even, not pitted, 
surface; albumen equable; embryo lateral in the centre of the face opposite the 
chalazal fovea. 
‘Hapirat.—Celebes: in the Strait of Bouton collected by  Labillardiére (Paris 
Herb, and Herb. Webb at Florence), To this species apparently belongs the 
specimen of a leaf collected by Warburg at Bajong in the prov. of Minahassa in 
N. Celebes, where it receives the native name of ‘ Rotang embel.” 
OnsERVATIONS,—My description is taken from the type-specimens seen by Martius 
himself consisting of some portions of leaves and of an incomplete spadix, with 
mature fruit. This is in all respects a very well marked species distinguishable at 
once, even when out of flower, by its large many-costate elliptic-lanceolate 
discolorous leaflets, of a light-yellow subochraceous colour underneath; and by the 
conspicuously pedicellate involucrophorum, a character which it has in common with 
the other species of the group to which it belongs. Its nearest ally seems to be C. 
Cumingianus, which has also the female flowers stalked by a similarly elongate 
involucrophorum. 
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Pirate 141.—Calamus symphysipus Mart. The base and the summit of a leaf; 
portion of the spadix with mature fruit; fruits and seeds.—From the authentic 
specimen in Webb’s Herbarium at Florence. 
119. Caramus Cum{mıncranus Bece. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 210. 
Calamus sp. Vidal Phan. Cuming. (No. 762), 18 and 154. 
Description.—Probably scandent, Leaf-sheaths . . . . . Leaves (not seen entire 
by me) probably cirriferous; petiole . . . . . ; rachis (in a small portion, 
probably from about the middle of the leaf) longitudinally finely striate on both 
surfaces, rounded below, where armed along the middle and at the sides with rather 
robust solitary black-tipped claws, unequally bifaced above and spinulous on its 
upper angle; leaflets approximate into groups of 2-4 on each side, the groups 
alternate, oblong-oblanceolate or oblong-subspathulate, slightly ^ coneavo-convex or 
subcochleariform, cuneately attenuate to the base, 20-21 cm. long, 5-5°5 em. in 
width in their broadest part near the summit which is suddenly contracted into a 
short triangular tip, this furnished with short rigid black bristles at the margins, 
papyraceous, green, opaque and glabrous on both surfaces, but paler beneath, longi- 
tudinally plicate, 7-9-costate, the mid-costa slightly the strongest and with very small 
and distaut spinules throughout in the upper surface; side costae slender and naked; 
on the lower surface the mid-costa and the side-nerves almost more distinct than 
above, and all naked; transverse veinlets very approximate and numerous but not 
very sharp; the margins closely serrate-spinulous; the lower margin on the upper 
surface bordered with a polished band, a few other similar polished bands or stripes 
(1-4 mm. broad) occur also, sometimes along the main-nerves and correspond to the 
