Q: kandariensis. | BECCARI. MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS. 351 
shining, strongly convex not or very faintly channelled along the middle, yellowish 
with darker tip. 
Hasrrat,—In the small Island of Taviuni of the Fiji group at 1,200 metr. above 
the level of the sea, Weber Oct. 1881, No. 111, in the Berlin Herb. 
OBSERVA1IONS.—1 have seen of this some portions of a fruit-spadix, but of the 
fruit only fragments of the scaly pericarp without the seed and the upper portion 
(36 cm. long) of a leaf with only 3 leaflets on each side and without the summit 
which is probably cirriferous, its uppermost leaflets being much reduced in size and 
more distant than the lower ones as is usually the case with that kind of leaf- 
It has not very prominent characters but it is distinct in the group, by its 
concolorous, inequidistant, remote, not fascicled, narrowly lanceolate 5-costate leaflets 
the costae smooth on both surfaces and the margins also smooth except at the 
summit. It is the most easterly species of the genus, and I dare say of the 
entire group of Lepidocaryeae except Sagus. In its chief characters it would appear 
to have some resemblance to C. kandariensis. , 
Prats 143.—Calamus vitiensis Ward. The summit of a leaf (under-surface) ; 
portion of the female spadix.—These parts represent the entire type-specimen in the 
Berlin Herb. ! 
191. CALAMUS KANDARIENSIS Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 210. 
DescriPTion.—Scandent, rather slender. Sheathed stem 8-10 mm. in diam, 
Leaf-sheaths strongly gibbous above, very obliquely truncate and naked at the mouth, 
finely longitudinally striate, covered with an ashy soft cottony-furfuraceous easily 
detachable indumentum and scantily armed with a few small short straight 
horizontal spines or also altogether smooth; no leaf-sheath flagella in the specimens 
seen by me. Ocrea very short, indistinct. Leaves terminating in a rather long and 
very slender cirrus; this armed with scattered or ternate very sharp small claws; 
petiole short, 5-6 cm. long, flat above, convex beneath, where armed with a few 
solitary claws; rachis smooth and bifaced above, armed beneath with claws which 
are solitary in its first portion and ternate upwards ; petiole and rachis fugaciously 
cottony-furfuraceous; the pinniferous part 45-50 em. long; leaflets very few, patent or 
almost horizontal, very inequidistant, usually closely approximate into 4-6 distant 
on each side, the pairs of one side alternate with or opposite to those 
of the other side, narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, flat or very slightly concavo- 
convex, usually almost equally narrowed to both ends, acute at the base, gradually 
acuminate at the summit into a-long subulate tip, thinly papyraceous, subshining 
and of an uniform brown colour (when dry) on both surfaces, unicostate or very 
obsoletely 3-5-costate, the mid-costa very slender and the other costae still 
more slender and inconspicuous; all naked- on both surfaces; transverse veinlets sharp, 
approximate and interrupted; | margins quite smooth even at the extreme apex; the 
largest leaflets, those about the middle, 20-22 cm. long, 2-2:5 cm. broad, the 
lowest and the uppermost slightly smaller. Male spadiz slender, 60 cm. long, 
straight at the base and nodding at the summit, inserted about the middle of 
