C. plicatus.) | BECCARI. MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS. 355; 
C. adspersus. approaches in its secund not flatly  bifarious arrangement of the 
flowers and in the stalked flowers and fruit, €. Cumingianus and C. symphysipus ; 
the seed, however, in this last is not at all ruminate, and the embryo is lateral, 
whereas the seed of C. adspersus has some intrusion of the integument and a basa 
embryo, Moreover (C. adspersus is distinguishable by its distinctly cirriferous leaves 
with numerous subequidistant narrowly lanceolate leaflets which have the 3 costae 
in the upper surface and the margins bristly. 
Prate 145.—Calamus adspersus Bi. The summit of a leaf (upper surface); 
portion of a female spadix in flower with an entire partial inflorescence; another 
portion of a female spadix with mature fruit; seed from the dorsal side; seed cut 
through the embryo.—From Zollinger’s No. 2302 in Herb. Boiss. 
123. Caramus PLICATUS Bl.  Rumphia iii, 67; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 339; 
Walp. Ann, ii, 489 and v, 831; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iiij 130 and 
De Palmis 28; H. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm. 237; Becc. in Rec. 
Bot. Surv. ind. i, 210. 
Descrietion.—Rather slender and probably scandent.  Sheathed stem apparently 
about 15 mm. in diam. The leaf upon which Blume has founded the species is 
60 cm. long and bears a very small portion of its sheath, which is armed with 
small straight pale spines; petiole very short ( 3:5 cm. long) channelled above, 
rounded beneath, where armed—as the first portion of the rachis—at the sides and 
along the middle with relatively strong claws; in its upper part the rachis is 
bifaced above, not very regularly furnished beneath along the middle with small 
claws and prolonged beyond the last leaflet into a very slender filiform very short 
(25 em. long) aculeolate rudimentary flagellum; leaflets not very numerous, 12 
on each side, inequidistant, usually not remotely paired on each side of the rachis, 
the pairs of one side alternating with those of the other side, 13-15 cm. 
long, 15-18 mm. broad, narrowly oblanceolate,  sub-spathulate, concavo-convex or 
spoon-shaped at their summit, where very suddenly contracted into a linear acuminate 
tip, this 15-20 mm. long and bristly-penicillate at the apex, gradually narrowed 
to the base, green, concolorous and glabrous ( without bristles or spinules ) on both 
surfaces, deeply longitudinally plicate and with about seven equal slender costae; 
transverse veinlets rather distinct, much interrupted; margins smooth or with a 
very few very adpressed spinules, the lower one bordered by a shining band 
1-3 mm. broad; the two terminal leaflets not opposite. Of these the uppermost, the 
smallest; those near the base narrower than the upper ones, Other parts unknown. 
Hanrrar.— Collected by Forsten in Celebes, as from Blume l. c. 
OxBgERVATIONS.—Known only by the specimen of one leaf which I have seen; I 
have not, however, observed at the mouth of its sheath the light brown bristles 
mentioned by Blume. Though so imperfectly known it seems to me to belong 
evidently to the group of C. symphysipus, and is distinct from the others by its 
narrowly spathulate concavo-convex, many-costate plicate leaflets, I believe, however, 
that the leaf upon which the species is founded belongs to a not fully grown 
plant. dela | 
Ann. Roy, Bor. Garp, Carcurra, Vor. XI. 
