870 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C. ornatus 
there with a small apiculum which penetrates into the pedicelliform perianth. The 
dry fruits vary from 3-3°5 cm. in length and 20-22 mm. in breadth; those 
preserved in alcohol measure even 4 cm. (including the beak and the basal apiculum) 
and 23-25 mm. in breadth; scales rather opaque, rhomboid, in 15 rows, when fresh 
dark spadiceous, with darker not very distinct intramarginal line; when dry almost 
black, channelled along the middle, rather obtuse or slightly prolonged into a point; 
margins erosely toothed. Seed, when fresh, enveloped by an abundant pulp, 22 by 
14 mm., when dry and freed from the integument 15-18 mm. long and 12-13 
mm. broad, very irregular, suborbicular or oblong in outline, with a very uneven 
surface; flattish on the back, rather convex and boldly tubercled on the raphal side 
with a narrow and deep chalazal fovea there; albumen equable ; embryo basal. : 
PravE 153.—CALAMUS ORNATUS var. SUMATRANUS Becc. Portion of a leaf-sheath 
with the base of its leaf; the petiole with the base of the pinniferous portion (under 
surface); partial inflorescence with portion of the axis of the spadix sheathed with a 
primary spathe and mature fruit; seed, dorsal and raphal side and longitudinally cut 
through the embryo. 
CALAMUS ORNATUS var. PHILIPPINENSIS Becc. OC. maximus Blanco, Flora de 
Filipinas, 1st edit. 1837, 265 and Gran edicion (Andres-Naves) i, 331; Kunth Enum. 
Plant. iii, 595; Martius, Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 343; Walp. Ann. iii, 492, and v, 
832; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii, 138. 
Descrietion.—Fruit ellipsoid, 3:5 cm, long 23 mm. broad, very suddenly and 
shortly conically beaked ; scales in 15 series, deeply channelled along the middle, 
reddish brown with a narrow black marginant line. Seed oblong very obsoletely 
and irregularly 4-angular, 18 mm. long, 15 mm. broad, 13 mm. thick, when freed 
from the crustaceous, once fleshy integument. 
Hasirat.—The Philippines in Central Luzon, .Loher No, 1387 in Herb. Kew. 
OssERvATIONS.—I have seen of this only a portion of a female inflorescence with 
mature fruit, but I was struck by the form of its seed, which corresponds with 
Blanco’s description (una semilla oblonga con 4 angulos confusos,” a form which I 
have not met with in any other Calamus. The fruit is said to be eaten by the 
natives, and this is a proof of its large size. The other characteristics of C. 
maximus in Blancos description correspond: also’ fairly well with those of C. 
ornatus. The identification of C. maximus with C. ornatus Bl, does not, however, 
alter the nomenclature of this species as the name ornatus is more ancient than that 
given to the same plant by Blanco. 
CALAMUS ORNATUS var. mitis Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 215. 
DzscRIPTION.—Leaf-sheaths strongly gibbous above, armed on the ventral side 
mainly near the mouth with a few large broad laminar spines, naked elsewhere. 
Leaves subcirriferous ; rachis armed with robust solitary geminate or ternate claws; 
leaflets gradually decreasing in size towards the summit, those of. the cirriform 
portion of the rachis 3-4 cm, iong with a brush of black bristles at the apex; 
the largest leaflets distinctly 5-costate, usually with the  mid-coste only spinulous 
