390 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, OALCUTTA.  [@, Merrilli: ~ 
the scales are in 20 series, pale greenish-brown, faintly channelled along the middle,’ 
not bordered by 2 darker line; their margins finely erose, the tip dark and seemingly 
once finely fimbriate. The seed is distinctly and sharply dimidiate, convex and 
nearly smooth on the back, flattish on the raphal side, and with the chalazal fovea 
forming a very deep, narrow conical groove, filled with a very dark matter and 
nearly passing through the entire equable albumen ; the embryo is basal. 
This remarkable species of the group with pedunculate spikelets inserted to 
the very bottom of their respective spathe is distinguishable by its very robust 
stem; the petiole not spinulous above, the leaflets very numerous, equidistant, very 
elongate-ensiform, very acuminate, with the mid-costa naked and two side-nerves 
bristly above, and the mid-costa bristly beneath and the side-nerves naked; the 
spadices large, pyramidate, rather dense; the fruit small globose mucronate; the 
scales superficially a with a short point, the seed with a smooth surface 
and equable albumen. 
On the label of Zollinger’s No. 3433 in the Herbarium at Bruxelles, Martius 
has written: ‘‘ Calamus, horti Bogoriensis in Java," from which it follows that 
apparently Zollinger made the specimens of this species on plants cultivated 
in the Botanic garden at Buitenzorg— a circumstance which will account for the 
mixtures which have occurred with specimens of C. Burckianus, a Javan species. 
Prats 165.—Calamus Zollingerii Bece, Upper portion of a leaf-sheath with the 
base of the petiole; two leaflets (under surface) with portion of the rachis from 
about the middle of the leaf; the summit of a leaf with its terminal cirrus; partial 
inflorescence from a female spadix with ovaries in course of development; two 
female spikelets; one primary spathe.—From the specimen cultivated at Buitenzorg 
as mentioned above. 
Pirate 166.—Calamus Zollingerii Becc. Male partial inflorescence (in the lower 
left-hand corner) and summit of a partial inflorescence with very young fruit (in 
the lower right cornerl—both from Zollingers No 3433 in Martius’ Herbarium at 
Bruxelles; partial female inflorescence in flower (on the upper right side) from 
Zollinger’s No, 3433 in Herb. Barbey-Boissier; portion of a female inflorescence - 
with mature fruit from the Leiden Herbarium; seed, central and dorsal side; seed 
longitudinally cut across the embryo. ! 
140. Carauvus MrRREiLLEM Becc. Sp. n. 
C. maximus (not of Blanco) Becc. in Perkins, Fragm. Fl. Philipp. 
i 45. : 
 DrsonrPrr0N.— Very large, and high scandent. Sheathed stem 6-7 cm. in diam. 
Leaf-sheaths thick, woody, reddish-brown; those of the upper part of the plant trans- 
versely puckered or gibbous at the base of the petiole, armed with very numerous 
small spiculae or rigid and very brittle bristles, 5-10 mm. long, of which a few are 
very often confluent and form by their united bulbous bases short, interrupted, thick. 
a&nd' in their upper part swollen series. . Ocrea short (or deciduous ?) represented by a 
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