430 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (Q. polydesmus. 
161. Carawus Dorrar Bece. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind., vi, 456, and in Rec. 
Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 211. 
Description.—Stem . . . . Leaves . . . . Female spadiz diffuse, apparently 
noncirriferous (not seen entire); primary spathes . . . .; partial inflorescences with 
rigid arched axis and terminating in a slender barely spinulous tail-like appendix ; 
the largest seen by me 30 em, long with 6 spikelets on each side; secondary spathes 
tubular, slightly infundibuliform, closely sheathing, unarmed, 2 cm. long, truncate and 
naked at the mouth where extended at one side into a rather long, acute, patent 
or deflexed point; spikelets inserted just above the mouth of their own spathe with a 
small axillary callus, horizontal or deflexed, slightly arched, zig-zag-sinuous, the larger 
ones, the lowest, 6 cm. long with 7-9 horizontal flowers on each side, the uppermost 
shorter with 5-6 flowers in all; spathels infundibuliform, narrow at the base, hori- 
zontally truncate and entire at the mouth, extended at one side into a broadly 
triangular acute point; involucrophorum subtended by the point of its own spathel 
and laterally attached at the base of the one above, shortly cupular, two-keeled and 
bidentate on the side next to the axis; involucre cupular, its margin entire, undulate ; 
areola of the neuter flower depressedly lunate, sharply bordered. Fruiting perianth 
distinctly pedicelliform, its indurated calyx  depressedly ventricose with 3 broad, 
triangular acute lobes; the segments of the corolla slightly longer but narrower 
than the lobes of the calyx, both patent under the fruit. Fruit elongate-elliptic, 
22-25 mm. long, 11-12 mm, broad, equally rounded at both ends, topped by a stout 
cylindric, 2 mm. long beak, with a small caudiculum at the base which penetrates into 
the perianth; scales small, in about 21 series, shining, yellowish, brown only on the 
short tip, narrowly and deeply channelled along the middle, margins finely erosely 
toothed. Seed oblong, subcylindraceous, its surface pitted; the chalazal fovea indis- 
tinct ; albumen superficially ruminate; embryo sub-basilar, slightly shifted on one side. 
Hastrat.—-Burma ; discovered in March 1888 by my lamented friend Sig. 
Leonardo Fea at Tahd on the Karin Gheccu mountains. © 
OssERVATIONS.— The materials from which the description above is derived consist 
only of two detached partial inflorescences with mature fruit. 
It seems related to ©, inermis and OC. khasianus, but is abundantly distinct by 
its smaller elongate fruit.—See observations under C. polydesmus. 
PLATE 191.-Calamud Doriæi Bece. The two partial inflorescences (in Herb. 
Becc.) upon which the species has been founded. 
162, CALAMUS POLYDESMUS Beco, sp. n. 
DrscRrPTION.—Seandent, apparently rather robust. ^ Leaf-shealhs . . . . Leaves 
apparently cirriferous, but their summit not seen by me; in the intermediate portion 
the rachis is rather robust, not very acutely angular, bifaced above, and obsoletely 
angular-convex beneath, where armed with very robust claws, which are solitary lower 
down and geminate upwards; leaflets very distinctly grouped in fascicles of 2-3, 
papyraceous, glabrous, light green (when dry) and concolorous on both surfaces, linear- 
lanceolate, gradually acuminate to the summit, 20-22 cm. long, 18-25 mm. broad, 
