460 ANNALS OF THE} ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C. pisicarpus 
em. broad; the upper ones gradually smaller, the extreme 30 cm. long, 3:5 em. 
broad. Spadices unknown. 
HanrraT.— Borneo, probably in Sarawak, Low in Herb. Kew. 
Oxsservations.—Of this large species I have seen only an entire leaf with its 
sheath, this completely unarmed,—a rare occurrence in the genus. Its affinities are 
doubtless with the species of the group of C. palustris, and its nearest ally seems 
to be C. unifarius, from which it chiefly differs in the unarmed leaf-sheaths and short 
petioles, which are smooth above and, as the first portion of the rachis, armed with 
tubercular spines at the sides. 
Pirate 208.—Calamus subinermis H. Wendl. Leaf-sheath with base of the leaf; 
first portion of the leaf (upper surface); one of the largest leaflets; the cirriferous 
summit.—From Low’s specimen in the Herb. Kew. 
178. CaraMus PISICARPUS Bl. Rumphia, iii, 39; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii, 340; 
Walp. Ann. iii, 490 and 832; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii, 132 and De 
Palmis, 28; Becc. Malesia i, 88 and Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 212. 
€. oblongus B. Bl. in Roem. and Schult. Syst, Veg. iii, 2, 1324 (as to 
cit. Herb. Amb. only, excl. the Javan plant which belongs to 
Daemonorops oblongus Bl. 
C. verus (not of Lour.) Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 209, Ist edit. (partly). 
Palmüuncus verus latifolius Rumph. Herb. Amb. v, 106, 2, t. 55, f. 1. 
DrscRiPrTION.—Seandent and robust, naked canes about 9*5 em. in diam. 
almost cylindric or superficially costate with internodes about 30 cm. long. 
Leaf-sheaths green, armed with long straight spines. Leaves cirriferous, large ; 
petiole very short, the pinniferous part 1'5 m. long, cirrus 2:5-3 m. long, very 
robust, strongly clawed; rachis armed with short aculei, leaflets alternate, scattered 
(inequidistant ?), lanceolate, acuminate, 35-40 cm. long and about 5 cm. broad, 
plicately many-costate with the mid-costa bristly-spinulous. Male spadiz ..... 
Female spadiz 1'8 m. long, nodding or reflexed, non-flagelliferous, with many (8 
in the plate) remote partial inflorescences; these scorpioid, bearing many distichous 
alternate, slender spikelets; involucrophorum shortly pedicelliform. Fruiting perianth 
pedicelliform. Fruit very small, almost sphaeric, pisiform, apiculate. Seed globose. 
Hasitat.—Amboina. Rumph writes that it is common near the river Basso 
(or Passo?) Bagualena, where it was known by the name of “ Rotang Way or (Ua) 
Ory,” and that it grows at the foot of the mountains in the country of Hitu, Laha 
near Way. It receives also the names of '*R. Tuni Daun Besar,’ “R. Bulu” or 
‘Ua Lou Cana.” According to Rumph it is employed for many uses, such as 
walking sticks, handles for lances, and principally for sap because of the facility 
with which it is bent and twisted. 
Oxservations.—Nobody after Rumphius has found this species again ao 
however, I consider a very distinct one. It bears very considerable affinities with 
