354 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C. adspersus. 
callous bulbous. base; partial inflorescences (only one seen by me) 15 cm. long, 
with 6-7 spikelets on each side; secondary spathes rather short, infundibuliform, 
covered with a tobacco-coloured scaly-furfuraceous scurf, sharply veined, nnarmed, 
entire truncate and ciliolate at the mouth, slightly prolonged at one side into an 
acute point; spikelets arched, slender, flexuose, inserted above the mouth of their 
own spathe; the lower ones, the largest, 7-8 cm. long, with two assurgent (not 
flatly bifarious) series of 8-10 flowers each; upper spikelets gradually shorter; 
spathels infundibuliform, loosely sheathing, gradually narrowed to the base, truncate, 
entire at the mouth, obsoletely apiculate at one side; involucrophorum laterally 
attached at or above the base and sometimes about to the middle of the spathe 
above its own, with a distinct axillary callus, pedicelliform, enlarged above into a 
subtrigonous cupular-calyciform truncate entire limb; involucre slightly exceeding the 
involucrophorum, shallowly cupular truncate and entire, bearing at one side a 
distinct cylindraceous pedicel { 1:5-2 mm, long) for the neuter flower. Female flowers 
subcylindraceous, 4 mm. long, 15 mm, thick; the calyx tubular, finely  striately 
veined, shortly and acutely 3-toothed; the corolla slightly shorter than the 
calyx, its segments acute; staminal urceolum crowned by 6 triangular teeth; anthers 
sagittate; ovary obovoid-oblong with short stigmas. Fruiting perianth distinctly 
pedicelliform. Fruit disposed in two assurgent series or with a secund arrangement, 
globose, 13-14 cm. in diam., rounded at both ends, topped by a small conic beak; 
scales in 18 series, shining, dirty straw-yellow, rather deeply channelled along the 
middle, with a slightly prolonged and dark-coloured tip, the margins finely erosely 
toethed. Seed globular, very slightly compressed, rounded at both ends, 1 cm. long, 
8 mm. broad, coarsely and broadly pitted when cleaned from the dry brittle crust- 
aceous, once fleshy integument, with a very narrow and deep but inconspicuous 
chalazal fovea in the ceatre of the raphal side; albumen bony, subruminate by the 
intrusion of the integument into the pits of the surface; embryo basal. 
Hasirar.—Java. Blume says that it grows chiefly near the banks of the rivers 
in the dense forests at the foot of the volcanic mountains in the western part of 
the island. Zollinger collected his specimens distributed with the No. 2302 on 
Mt, Semiru, between 600-1,800 metres elevation. \ 
OsseRvaTions.—I have seen of the authentic specimens of Blume only the 
terminal part of a leaf. I have derived from Blume my description of the 
leaf-sheaths, which I have not seen, and the generalities of the leaves and of the 
spadix from Zoliinger's specimens, 
Figure V in plate 160 of the work of Martius, representing a leaf-sheath with 
a portion of the petiole and a few leaflets of C. adspersus, does not exactly agree 
with the corresponding parts of the same species in plate 143 of Rumphia. 
The apical portion of a leaf accompanying the portions of spadix with female 
flowers and fruit of Zollinger’s No, 2302 in Herb. Boiss. which I have described 
and photographed has the rachis armed with solitary claws almost to the summit, 
the leaflets are less bristly on the carinæ and the bristles on the margins are shorter 
and more adpressed than in the type-specimen. I have not seen specimens of the 
varieties mentioned by Teysmann. 
