470 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (C. melanoloma 
eampanulate, subcoriaceous, green, striately veined, its teeth triangular acute; corolla 
about a third longer than the calyx, divided almost from the base into 3 ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, concave, cartilaginous, externally rather polished segments ; 
` stamens with filaments as long as the corolla, subulate with inflexed apices in the 
bud; anthers versatile, linear-sagittate, attenuate towards the apex; rudimentary 
ovary consisting of 3 small obtuse papillae. Female spadiz exactly like the male, 
sometimes perhaps smaller and with fewer spikelets (2-4 on each side); primary 
spathes as in the male spadix; spikelets very similar to the male ones, 5-6 cm. 
long, with 5-6 very spreading or horizontal flowers on each side; the uppermost 
somewhat shorter and with fewer flowers; spathels as in the male spikelets ; 
involucrophorum subtended by the point of its own spathel and laterally attached 
to the base of the one above, shallowly cupular, acutely bidentate and bicarinate on 
the side next to the axis, ciliolate at the margin, excavate on the side of the neuter 
flower of which the areola is comparatively large and lunate. Female flowers small, 
9 mm. long; the calyx divided midway down into 3 ovate acute lobes; segments 
of the corolla as long as but narrower than the lobes of the calyx; staminal urceolum 
reaching about to the middle of the corolla, and crowned by 6 short teeth; anthers 
very small; ovary oblong; stigmas subsessile, subulate-trigonous, speedily recurved. 
Fruiting perianth distinctly pedicelliform somewhat narrowed towards the base. Fruit 
18-24 mm. long, 10-15 mm. broad, elongate-ellipsoid, equally rounded at both ends, 
caudiculate at the base, topped by a very distinct cylindric narrow beak; scales 
in 15-18 series (22, Blume), shining, faintly channelled along the middle, straw-coloured 
with an almost black marginal line which broadens towards the somewhat prolonged 
obtuse point; margins acute, finely erosely toothed. Seed narrowly oblong, equally 
rounded at both ends, 11-12 mm. long, 6 mm. thick, with deep narrow pits on 
. the back; chalazal fovea narrow and deep in the centre of the raphal side; 
albumen ruminate near the periphery, homogeneous in the centre ; ; embryo basal — 
parts of the plants have a light-green colour when dry. 
HaBrrAT.—On the hioh- part of the volcanoes in West Java; on the Salak, 
Pangherango, Tankuwang prahu, etc., Blume; on the Megamendong, Kurz in the 
Munich Herb.; at Tjanjor, Junghuhn. 
. 1t produces a good slender, elastic und tough Rotang, much employed for liga- 
tures and when reduced into fine strips for basket-making and other wicker work. 
OsnsERVATIONSs,— I have seen portions of the authentic specimens of C. anceps 
Blume, of C. calolepis Miquel and of C. melanoioma Martius, and I am therefore sure 
that these three names have been applied to only one species. In the St. Petersburg 
Herbarium I have seen some very complete specimens forw arded by Teysmann, and 
from these I have chiefly derived the description, 
C. calolepis Miq. certainly in no way differs from ©. melanoloma Mart. The fruit 
of Junghuhn's specimens, which Miquel described, was very young and exactly corre- 
sponds to that of the same period of development of C. melanoloma. Miquel assigns 
to the leaves the length of 10-11 feet, evidently meaning inches. 
The name (C. anceps, employed by Blume in a manuscript paper, was published 
after that of C. melanoloma, which therefore has the precedence. 
