'414 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (C. axillaris. 
and of the muero, comparatively large, broader than long (7 mm. in width), very 
thin, rather deeply channelled along the middle, shining, straw-coloured with paler 
scarious erosely toothed, and towards the obtuse point reddish-brown margin, „Seeds 
3. or 1 perfectly evolute and 2 abortive, 11-12 mm. in length; when 3 convex on 
‘the back with an obtuse angle dividing 2 flat faces on the inner or axial side, 
covered by the very adherent crustaceous integument; the testa smooth, spadiceous, 
not pitted nor tubercled; chalazal fovea very minute, punctiform, in the centro of 
the convex side; albumen equable; embryo basal. 
Hasitat.—The Philippine Islands; at Manila, Gaudichaud, voyage of the ‘‘ Bonite”, 
Dec. 1836. 
OBSERVATIONS.—I have seen of this only two perfectly similar spikelets, with a 
few mature fruits still attached, these partly bruised, the scaly pericarp being very 
thin and fragile. One of the spikelets is preserved in  Delessert's Herbarium at 
Geneva, and has a small portion of the upper part of a secondary spathe, the other, 
certainly of the same gathering as the above, is in the Paris Herbarium with the 
label: * Guital: Rotin à fruits blancs écailleux.” With such scanty material it is 
difficult to point out the affinities of this species. It is, however, closely related to 
C, írispermus but distinct from it by its fragile larger round fruit. 
Prae 226 I, Fig. 1.—Calamus maniilensis H. Wendi. Spikelet with mature fruit; 
fig. 2, one of the 3 seeds contained in a fruit as seen from the inner side; fig. 3, 
the same seed from the external side; fie. 4, the same seed longitudinally cut through 
the embryo and the chalazal fovea, 
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151. Catamus AXILLARIS Becc. in Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 456, aud in Rec. 
Bot, Surv. Ind. ii, 211. 
Descriprion,—Seandent. Sheathed stem 2 cm. in diam. mot flagelliferous, gibbous 
above, irregularly armed with horizontal or slightly deflexed, broad-based, short, rigid, 
brown-tipped spines, of which the largest ! em. long, and the smallest reduced to a 
spinesvent tubercle. their base concave beneath and tumescent above. Leaves rather 
large, terminating in a rather long slender cirrus; this densely armed with half- 
whorled small claws; petiole almost obsolete; rachis in its pinniferous part about 1 
metre in length, flat above in its basal portion, then convex and upwards irregularly 
bifaced with a not very acute salient angle; roundish and naked beneath in the 
basal portion and armed upwards with at first solitary and then ternate claws; 
leaflets not very numerous (in one specimen 36 in all), inequidistant but not distinctly 
fascicled, often geminate on each side towards the summit, subregularly alternate near 
the base, rigidulous, papyraceous, narrowiy lanceolate or subensiform, subconcolorous 
and subshining on both surfaces, almost equally narrowed to both ends, acute at 
the base, acuminate into a slightly spinulous tip, 3- or sub-5-costulate, the mid-costa 
acute, and though slender stronger than the others, all quite naked on both surfaces; 
‘transverse veinlets much interrupted, not very conspicuous, indistinctly spinulous; 
largest leaflets, those of the lower third part, up to 32 cm. long and 2 cm, broad; 
‘the upper ones a good deal shorter but slightly larger, many of those near the 
‘base long and very narrow, more distinctly callous at their axilla than the upper 
