C. Cuthbertsonii.] BECCARI. MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS&. . 3859 
€. Cawa Bl, which name must be doubtless applied to the plate lvii fig. 1.: A. B. 
of Rumphius’s work, though any reference in the text is wanting. 
| The name of C. equestris has been also improperly applied by Willdenow to the 
Calamus that afterwards Blume distinguished with the name of (0. javensis,‘ The 
name of equestris has been made use of by Martius for C. javensis in plates 
113 and 128 of his great work, and partly in the description of C. equestris in the 
text (207 second edit. ). 
In the chapter treating of the Palmijuncus equestris, Rumphius mentions also 
another Calamus similar to R. Tsjavoni, but much more robust, which is said to be 
common in Circkzee, a small island near Batavia. To this Calamus Blume (Rumphia 
ii, 31) assigned the name of C. maritimus, but this is not recognizable, and certainly 
it has already been published under another name. | 
197. Caramus CurHBERTSONII Becc. in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. It. xx, (1888), 179, 
and in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 202. 
Description.—Slender and probably scandent. —Leaf-sheaths . . . 4 . Leaves 
small, about 25 cm. long, not cirriferous; petiole very slender, flattish above 
with obtuse sides, where armed with a few straight spines, roundish beneath; 
rachis trigonous, furfuraceous and like the petiole irregularly armed beneath with 
scattered claws; leaflets very inequidistant, very few, 9 in all, of which four 
are approximate at the summit and the side ones scattered, alternate or subopposite, 
10-13 cm. long, i0-13 mm. broad, narrowly lanceolate, rather suddenly narrowed 
to the base and from their lower third or fourth part upward gradually long- 
acuminate into a subulate apex, which is bristly at the sides; the 4 uppermost 
shorter and less acuminate than the side ones and the two of the terminal 
pair connate up to about the middle; all are thinly  papyraceous, rather rigid, 
dull and glabrous on the upper surface, slightly paler and fugaciously  rusty- 
furfuraceous mainly near the base beneath, with the mid-costa rather acute in the 
upper surface, where it is accompanied on each side by a slender, often indistinct, 
secondary nerve, and is occasionally but not always furnished with a few 
spinules; beneath, the mid-costa is indistinct and smooth; margins remotely spinulous, 
the lower one in the upper surface bordered with a shining band; transverse 
veinlets few, remote, much interrupted. Male spadiz . . . . . Faiet spadiz 
short ( not seen entire ) rigid, erect, more or less furfuraceous throughout; primary 
spathes narrowly tubular at the base, slightly enlarged and loosely sheathing in their 
upper part, exsuccous, papyraceous, prolonged at the summit into a triangular point 
and sprinkled with a few very small tubercled claws; the lowermost spathe slightly 
flattened, spinulous at the sides; partial inflorescences few, small, erect, pyramidate, 
6-7 cm. long with 3-4 distichous slightly arched spikelets on each side; secondary 
spathes tubular-infundibuliform, unarmed, ciliate and truncate at the mouth and 
produced at one side into a narrow and subulate point; the largest spikelets, the 
lowest, 18-20 mm. long, with 6-8 flowers in all, the upper suddenly shorter and with 
very few flowers, Female flowers biseriate, rather remote, not flatly bifarious, all 
pointing upwards; spathels tubular-infundibuliform, truncate at the mouth; involucro. 
