418 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [Q. viridispinus. 
loose in.their upper part, entire, naked and very obliquely truncate at the mouth, 
prolonged at one side into a triangular acuminate dorsally keeled and erect point, the 
first longer but otherwise not differing from the others, flattened with acute naked 
edges; partial inflorescences coming forth erect from the mouth of their respective 
spathes: the lower ones 8-10 cm. long with very few spikelets: the upper ones 
reduced to very few spikelets; secondary spathes very narrowly tubular-infundibuliform, 
closely sheathing; spikelets spreading, attached at or above the mouth of their 
respective spathes with a distinct axillary callus, the larger ones, the lowest, 2-2°5 
cm. long with 7-8 flatly not very approximate bifarious flowers on each side; 
spathels very shortly broadly and unilaterally infundibuliform, entire, prolonged at 
one side into a short triangular point which subtends its own flower; ; involucre almost 
exsert from its own spathel and laterally attached to the base of the one above, 
almost regularly cupular and entire. Male flowers ovoid-oblong, slightly narrowed to 
the summit, 4 mm. long; the calyx indistinctly veined, divided down almost to the 
middle into 3 broadly triangular acute teeth; the corolla almost twice as long as the 
calyx, its segments polished outside, Female spadiz . . . . . 
HasrrAr.— The Malayan Peninsula. Discovered by L. Wray, Jr., in March 1890 
on Gunong Bubu in the district of Perak at about 1,900 metr. above the level of 
the sea (Herb. Kew.). 
O À tly a very localized mountain species. The specimens I 
have examined consist only of an entire leaf with a good portion of its leaf-sheath 
and a male spadix in flower. The species is distinguished from the allied ones by 
its small size; its leaf-sheaths armed with slender sub-bristly and larger laminar spines, 
these often multifid from the base and light-coloured; its inequidistant 3-costate narrow 
leaflets, with the costae and margins quite smooth; and its slender, rigid, unarmed male 
spadix. The nearest ally seems C. neglectus, but this has equidistant leaflets. 
Pate 183.—Calamus bubuensis Becc. An entire leaf with its leaf-sheath; an 
entire male spadix.—From Wray’s type-specimen in Herb. Kew. 
154, CALAMUS VIRIDISPINUS Becc. in Hook. fil Fl. Brit, Ind. vi. 458, and in 
Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind, n. 213. 
Description.—Slender, scandent. Sheathed siem 8-15 mm. in diam.  Leaf-sheathe 
not flagelliferous, somewhat gibbous above, rusty-furfuraceous, very densely armed 
with spines of unequal length, greenish brown or schistaceous when dry, furfura- 
ceous, fringed at the margin at first, the largest flat, 1-2 cm. long, rather broad at 
the base, horizontal or slightly deflexed, these intermingled with others very short 
deflexed or ascendent. Ocrea inconspicuous or deciduous? Leaves rather elongate, 
35-50 em. long in the pinniferous part, terminating in a slender cirrus; this armed 
with half-whorls of black-tipped very sharp claws; petiole variable in length, 10-35 
em. long, flat and smooth above, rounded beneath, more or less prickly at the 
margins, rachis a little above the base speedily becoming bifaced, roundish and more 
or less irregularly clawed beneath; leaflets rather numerous, very distinctly approxi- 
mate on each side into 4-6 groups; each group composed of 2-5 leaflets, which 
