359 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. |Ç. Kandariensis. 
the sheath (not near its mouth), with few small and remote partial inflorescences 
(4 in one specimen); primary spathes more or less covered with greyish and rusty 
thin fugacious scurf, elongate-tubular, papyraceous, rather closely sheathing, entire 
and obliquely truncate and naked at the mouth, where very slightly prolonged at 
one side into a short point; the lowest shorter and smaller than the upper ones, 
very faintly keeled at both sides, unarmed; the upper ones very feebly aculeolate 
on the back or quite smooth, cylindraceous, very suddenly narrowed into the 
slender flattened angular unarmed axial part; partial inflorescences attached outside 
the mouth of their own spathe with a distinct axillary swelling, slightiy branched ; 
secondary spathes tubular-infundibuliform, truncate and acute at one side at the 
mouth, finely striately veined; spikelets very short, with very few assurgent not 
flatly bifarious fiowers ; spathels infundibuliform, finely striately veined, truncate at the 
mouth; involucre discoid, flat,  obsoletely toothed, sessile, almost horizontally 
subtended by its own spathel and attached at the base of the one above, Female 
spadiz and fruit unknown. l 
HaBrrAT,—S. E. Celebes, where I collected this species in July 1874 near 
Kandari, 
OssERVATIONS.— This species is described from specimens consisting of some 
portion of the sheathed stem with entire leaves and with a male decayed spadix 
wanting the summit, but apparently not cirriferous, stripped of the flowers; it is 
nevertheless distinguishable without difficulty by its cirriferous leaves, the leaflets 
lanceolate very acuminate, paired on each side of the rachis; the pairs usually 
opposite and remote; further, the many-costulate leaflets have the costae very 
inconspicuous and like the margins totally devoid of bristles, hairs, or spinules, 
It has not very marked affinities, though evidently related to C, adspersus. It is 
perhaps the one which more than any other approaches C. vitiensis. 
PrarE 144.—Calamus kandariensis Becc. Portion of the sheathed spadix bearing 
a decayed female spadix.—The type-specimen in Herb, Bece., 
CALAMUS KANDARIENSIS var. GLABRATUS Bece. in Rec. Bot, Surv. Ind. ii, 210. 
Descrirtion.—Glabrous, leaf-sheaths sharply and finely striately veined, armed 
with rather many straight horizontal short or even 15 mm, long spines; petiole 
longer and more powerfully armed than in the type, some of the spines on the 
margins straight and 10-15 mm. long; leaflets more numeroüs and narrower, 
HaBrrAT.—Celebes: at Kandari, with the type. 
OssreRVATIONS,—Not taking into account iis baldness, the other peculiarities 
mentioned above probably depend upon the youthful age of the plant from which 
the specimens were gathered, this not having as yet produced spadices. 
Prate 144.—Calamus kandariensis Becc. Portion of a sheathed stem ( sterile di 
on the left side of the plate-—The type-specimen in Herb. Becc, 
