362 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (C, spathulatus. 
Hasrrat.—The Malayan Peninsula: collected at Malacca by Th. Lobb (Herb. 
Kew.) and found again in the same locality more recently by Mr. F, A. Hervey. 
OssERvATIONS.—Lobb's specimen consists of a portion of the sheathed stem with 
an entire leaf and of a female spadix with immature fruit; the largest partial inflor- 
escence is 13 cm. long with 11 spikelets in all. Hervey’s specimen has a more 
robust female spadix than the preceding, its largest inflorescence being 30 cm. long 
with 13 spikelets on each side. This specimen forms the passage to the var. robustus. 
C. spathulatus is distinguishable by the light yellowish colour of all its parts when 
dry, by the subcirriferous shortly petiolate leaves with few firm spathulate cochleate 
many-costulate closely and sharply transversely veined leaflets, and the ellipsoid small 
fruit topped by a long narrow cylindricous tip. 
From C. Martianus it differs in its larger size, in the leaves with longer petioles, 
larger and more obtuse leaflets. 
Prate 149.—Calamus spathulatus Becc. The summit of a leaf (upper surface); 
portion of the female spadix in flower; partial inflorescence with mature fruit,— From 
Hervey's specimen in Herb. Kew. 
CALAMUS SPATHULATUS var. ROBUSTUS Becc. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 459, 
and in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 215. 
Description,—Scandent, of moderate size, 6-10 m. long. Sheathed stem 20-22 
mm. in diam. Leaf-sheaths armed as in the type but with more robust, even 10-15 
mm. long spines, Leaf-sheath flagella very long (2 m.), strongly flattened at the 
base, armed lower down with solitary and upwards with 2-3-nate or half-whorled 
claws. Leaves 1-1°3 m. iu length, subcirriferous; leaflets about 5 on each side, some 
of them up to 40 cm. long, usually 25-30 cm., a few at the apex smaller, the 
uppermost semi-abortive, laterally aculeolate on the side of the prolongation of the 
rachis. Male spadic . , . . . Female spadiz robust (not seen entire); its main 
axis almost 1 em. in diam.; partial inflorescences robust, about 30 em. long, with 10 
spikelets on each side; secondary spathes rather short, tubular-infundibuliform, almost 
glabrous or fugaciously —sealy-furfuraceous, unarmed or sparingly  spinulous, 
horizontally truncate at the mouth, sometimes longitudinally split; spikelets 6-8 em. 
long with 12-18 flowers on each side. ` Female flowers about 4 mm. long. Fruit 
(nearly mature) ovoid- elliptic, about 18 mm, long, including the cylindric beak which 
is 3 mm. long; scales in 18 series, pale-yellowish, with faintly rusty-brown margins. 
Seed oblong, rounded at both ends, deeply pitted on the back; chalazal fovea 
elongate, shallow on the flattish raphal side; albumen equable; embryo basal. 
Hasitat.—The dense forests of the Malayan Peninsula at the foot of bonas 
Malacca (Sir G. King's collector No. 7136 in Herb. Calo.). 
OssERvATIONS.— The leaves of this variety difer only in their larger size from 
those of the type-specimens; the spadices, however, are considerably more robust. 
their main axis attaining l em, in diam. The leaves in the type as in the variety 
vary a good deal as to their termination; some of them being distinctly, though 
