0. siphonospathus | BECCARI. MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMDS. 475 
The plant is said to be 3-4 m. high; sheathed stem 2 em. in diam., leaf-sheaths 
unarmed. with only a few flabby laminar spines round the mouth; leaves with a 
short smooth and only at the margins slightly prickly petiole; leaflets linear very 
narrow, with 3 smooth costae above; male spadix 60 cm. long, nodding, with totally 
unarmed spathes; of these the two lowest not carrying partial inflorescences: these 
are seven. The flowers are said to be fragrant, 
Other specimens, also from Mt. Mariveles, Lamao River (Nos. 308, 286, 1577 Herb. 
Manill.) as to the vegetative organs much resemble the male plant described above 
but the sheathed stem is 13-18 cm. in diam. and more or less armed with ied 
flabby elastic scattered spines; the ocrea (up to 10 cm. long) is also similarly armed ; 
female spadix nodding, 60 em. long with 6 partial inflorescences and quite unarmed 
spathes. The leaves have the petiole and first portion of the rachis slightly spinous 
or unarmed; the leaflets are very narrow, with 3 costae smooth or very sparingly 
spinulous above; fruiting perianth cylindricous, distinctly pedicelliform; fruit scales 
in 15 longitudinal series. 
CALAMUS SIPHONOSPATHUS var. OLIGOLEPIS (MAJOR) Becc, in Webbia, 73. 
C. inflatus Warb. in Herb. Berol.; Bece. in Perkins, Fragm. Fl, Philipp. i, 45. 
Descriprion.— Scandent, of moderate size.  Leaf-sheaths . . . . . Leaves as large 
as in type; rachis in its first portion rounded and unarmed beneath, obsoletely angular 
above, where sparsely and rather closely spinulous; leaflets rather closely set, 
apparently subequidistant but now and then with a space between two leaflets 
longer than usual, linear-ensiform, very acuminate, up. to 35-37 cm. long and 
13-15 mm. broad, sub-—5-costulate, or with the mid-costa on the upper surface 
acute and two secondary nerves on each side of it stronger than the others, the 
5 nerves furnished with numerous long fulvous spreading and at the base bulbous 
bristles; the lower surface paler than the upper one with the mid-costa more or 
less bristly-spinulous and the side nerves naked. Female spadiz as in the type; 
primary spathes rather densely spinulous in their upper part. Spikelets 3-4 cm, 
long with 10-12 flowers on each side. Fruiting perianth very distinctly pedicelli- 
form, the calyx cylindraceous, polished. Fruit (when young) globose-ovoid, suddenly 
narrowed at the summit into a broad conic beak; scales in 12 series, convex, 
shining, not channelled along the middle, pale grey-yellowish with lighter scarious 
margin, the point short, spotted with reddish-brown. 
HanraT.— The Philippine Islands at Sampalor in the Prov. of Tajabas in 
Central Luzon (Warburg in Herb. Berol.). 
OsseRvaTIONs.—Distinguished from the type only in the more conically - beaked 
fruit with fewer scales, these being in 12 instead of 15-18 series. The leaflets are 
remarkable on account of the numerous spreading long bristles which occur on the 
five nerves of the upper surface, they are 13-15 mm. broad. Of this variety 
I have seen a portion of the upper part of a leaf, an almost entire female spadix, 
85 cm. in length with 6 gradually diminishing supra-decompound partial inflores- 
sences and terminating in a rather large closely sheathed unarmed caudiculum. 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garp, CALCUTTA Vor. XI. 
