364 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALOUTTA. [C. insignis. 
the lower ones, the largest, 3—3:5 cm. long, with 5-6 very remote horizontal 
flowers on each side, the upper with 3 or 4 only ; spathels tubular-infundibuliform, 
narrowed a good deal to the base, truncate, naked and entire at the mouth, apiculate 
at one side, strongly striately veined; involucre laterally adnate outside its own 
spathel to the base of the one above, cupular, with narrow entire externally strongly 
veined limb.—Other parts unknown. 
Hasitat.—Pulo Pinang, where it was discovered by Gaudichaud in 1839. No. 37 
in Herb. Delessert at Geneva and in Herb. Webb at Florence. 
OsseRvATIONs.—Gaudichaud’s specimens mentioned above were referred by Martius 
to C. penicillatus Roxb.; but this is a very doubtful species which apparently must 
be reduced to C. javensis, Furthermore, the Calamus that Martius describes under the 
name of C. penicillatus at p. 334 is not the same as that of which he gives the 
description at p. 210 of the first edition of this page; this last description being 
derived from that of Roxburgh, while that at p. 334 was based on the already- 
mentioned specimens collected by Gaudichaud at Penang. C. Martianus is very 
closely related to C. spathulatus, of which perhaps it represents a depauperate or a 
more slender form, but in the absence of the female spadix and fruit in €. Martianus 
and of the male spadix in C. spathulatus, it is impossible to make an exact com- 
parison of the two,— C. Martianus, like C. spathulatus and C. insignis, acquires a 
yellowish tint iu drying and keeps this colour in Herbarium specimens; certainly 
they appear very nearly allied species if they are not different forms of one only, 
€. Martianus differs from C. spathulatus in its smaller dimensions and in the smaller 
:and more acuminate leaflets and in the petiole being almost obsolete. 
Prate 151.—Calamus Martianus Bece. The summit of the plant with a male 
spadix stripped of its flowers.—-from the type-specimen in Herb. Webb at Florence. 
130. Caraxus Insicnis Griff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 59, and Palms Brit. 
Ind. 69; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 338; Walp. Ann. iii, 488 and 
v, 831; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 128; Hook. f. Fl. Brit, Ind., vi, 459; 
Becc. in Rec. Bot, Surv. Ind. ii, 215. 
DzscRrPTI0N.—Slender, probably scandent. Sheathed stem 8-18 mm. in diam.; naked 
canes terete, smooth (not striate) straw-coloured, polished, the internodes 5-8 cm. long. 
Leaf-sheaths sometimes flagelliferous, gibbous above, obliquely truncate and entire at the 
mouth, dotted—as the petiole and leaf-rachis—with very minute small scales, more or 
less armed with short (1-8 mm, long) semi-conie broad-based horizontal or slightly 
deflexed black-tipped prickles. crea very short, naked. Leaves not cirriferous, 
40 cm-l m. long; petiole 10-25 cm. long, subterete from the base. armed all 
round with solitary small, or in the lower surface sometimes rather strong claws; 
rachis similarly armed beneath, acutely bifaced and smooth above; leaflets very 
few, 3-6 on each side, besides the two of the terminal pair, which are about 
midway up connate by their bases, but otherwise not differing in size and shape 
from the side ones; the latter alternate, ovate- or obovate-oblong, cuneately alternate 
and acute at the base; ; concavo-convex or spoon-shaped, especially near tbe tum 
