0. adspersus. | BECCARI. MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS, 353 
199. CALAMUS ADSPERSUS Bl. Rumphia, iii, 40 (excl syn. Rumph.) and pl. 142 
(excl. fig. D. and analysis) and pl. 143 (with the name of 
Demonorops ); Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 940; Walp. Ann, iii, 490, 
and v, 832; Miq. Fl, Ind. Bat. iii, 131, and De Palmis, 28; Teysm. 
Cat. Hort. Bog. 74. 
C. oblongus (non Reinw,) Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 207 (first edit. ), 
partly as to desoript. and pl. 160, fig. iv (only as to the leaf-sheath 
and lower portion of the leat). 
R 
obiongus var. 8 Bl. in Reem. et. Schult. Syst. Veg. vii, II, 1324 (excl. 
Palmij. gramin. Rumph.) — 
. asperrimus (not of Bl.) Zolling. Syst. Verzeich. 79 and Exsic. No, 2302 
(in Herb. Boiss.) at least as to ? spad, and fruit, 
I. 
. adspersus Bl. var. intermedius and var. fructibus minoribus, Teysm. Cat. 
Hort. Bog. 74. 
Q 
Daemonorops adspersus Bl. Rumphia iii, pl, 143. 
DrscmrPrION.— Very high scandent and rather large, up to 60 m. in length 
( Bl.)  Sheathed stem 2:5-4'5 cm. in diam. Leaf-sheaths ( not flagelliferous ) strongly 
gibbous above, armed with numerous unequal, straight and rather short (1-6 mm.) 
spreading or horizontal svattered or subseriate spines; the mouth obliquely truncate 
and densely hispid-spinous. Ocrea very short or indistinct. Leaves of the upper and 
fertile part of the plant cirriferous, fugaciously rusty-furfuraceous mainly on the 
rachis, the pinniferous part 1°8-2°5 m. long, the cirrus itself *6-1m. long ( Bl ), 
densely and somewhat irregularly armed with half-whorled claws; petiole rather 
short, 6-15 cm. long, 10-15 mm. thick, rounded below, flat above, more or 
less armed with very short spines on both surfaces and at the margins; rachis 
bifaced and smooth above, clawed beneath, where the claws are solitary in the first 
portion, ternate or half-whorled upwards; leaflets rather numerous, sub-equidistant, 
18-20 on each side, 5-6 cm. apart and even more distant towards the summit, 
very narrowly lanceolate, 30-40 cm. long, 20-27 mm. broad, papyraceous, rigidulous, 
green above even when dry, pale or subglaucescent beneath, tapering towards the 
base, gradually and subulately acuminate at the apez, rather acutely 3 costae, 
sometimes with an additional naked and strong nerve on each side; the 3 costae 
furnished above with rather strong, 3-5 mm. long, spadiceous bristles; beneath all 
the nerves tenuous and naked; margins acute and, mainly near the apex, rather 
densely and conspicuously ciliate with spreading bristles. Mule spadiz . ... . 
Female spadix decompound, apparently axillary, 2-2°7m. long, nodding, with 10-13 
spreading and arched partial inflorescences ; lowest primary spathe about 20 cm. 
long, compressed, two-keeled, tubular, closely sheathing, truncate at the mouth, 
armed mainly in their upper part with short scattered rather closely set spines; 
upper primary spathes rusty-furfuraceous in youth, ultimately glabrous, tubular, 
cylindraceous, slightly enlarged above, sprinkled with very slender subsetiform 
spadiceous horizontal or deflexed spines which are 5-7 mm. long and rest on a 
Axx. Ror. Bor. Garp, Carcurra, Vor. XI. 
