396 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (Ç. Moseleyanus. 
bottom of its own spathel, dimidiately infundibuliform, rather deep, somewhat narrowed 
+o the base, flat, bidentate, acutely keeled and with the margin excavate on the side 
next to the axis; involucre deep subcupular, entire, asymmetrically evolute on the side 
of the neuter flower and subauriculiform; areola of the neuter flower conspicuous, 
ovate, sharply bordered. Female flowers very small, about 3 mm. long. Fruiting 
perianth explanate (not pedicelliform); the calyx split into 8 broad striately veined 
lobes ; the segments of the corolla very finely striate, acute, narrower than the lobes 
of the calyx and as long as this. Fruit small, ellipsoid-ovate (when nearly ripe), 
very suddenly apiculate, about 1 em. long, 65-7 mm. broad; scales in 18 series, 
pale, very convex, rather deeply channelled along the middle, with very narrow 
scarious erosely toothed margin. Seed (immature) globular, apparently with smooth 
surface and a deep chalazal fovea ; albumen equable; embryo basal. 
HaBrrArT.—German New Guinea: Kaiser Wilhelmsland, on the Schumann River 
at 780 m. elevation, Kersting No. 437, in Herb. Berol. 
OnsERVATIONS.— This is in all respects a very distinct species from the large, 
almost epetiolate leaves with very numerous, very approximate, pectinate, rigid, 
subhorizontal narrowly lanceolate 3-costulate leaflets, which have the 3 costae bristly on 
both surfaces and the margins adpressedly and closely spinulous; fruit small, 
ellipsoid-ovoid apiculate, scales with finely erosely toothed margin. 
Prate 170.—Calamus Warburgii .K. Schum. Basal portion of a leaf (under 
. surface); intermediate portion of a leaf (upper surface); the summit of a leaf (under 
surface); basal portion of a fruit spadix.— From Kersting’s No. 437 in Herb. Berol, 
143. Caramus MosELEYANUs Bece. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 211. 
Description.—Probably scandent and of moderate size. Stem... . . Leaf- 
sheaths . . . . . eaves not seen entire by me, but apparently ralhar iarge and 
cirriferous; petiole . ; rachis of the intermediate portion glabrous, 
trigonous, bifaced above RUM the upper salient angle obtuse and smooth, subtetragonous 
near its summit where it passes into the flagellum; in the lower surface almost polished 
and armed along the middle with robust, black-tipped claws; these at first solitary, 
then 3-5-nate and closely half-whorled on the cirrus; leaflets not very numerous, 
not aggregate, subequidistant, 7-10 cm. apart on each side, alternate or sub- 
opposite, 25-32 em. long, 3-4:5 em. broad, lanceolate or narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 
almost equally narrowed to both ends, bristly-penicillate at the apex, papyraceous, 
rigidulous, glabrous, subeoneolorous on both surfaces, flat (not plano-convex) with 5 
costae, of which that near the lower margin faint and naked, the other 4 spinulous 
above; underneath all nerves faint and naked; transverse veinlets rather distinct, 
very irregular and interrupted; margins acute, not very closely spinulous-ciliate, 
Male spadiz supradecompound, rather large and diffuse; primary spathes tubular, closely 
sheathing, aculeolate in their upper part; partial inflorescences panicled-pyramidate, in 2 
Specimens 30 cm. long, attached outside the mouth of their respective spathe, with 
several branchlets (or compound spikelets) in their basal part and several simple spikelets 
from the middle upwards; secondary spathes elongate tubular-infundibuliform, glabrous, 
