484 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA.  [(. Lobbianus 
filaments shortly united by their bases, rather thick, subtrigonus, suddenly con- 
tracted into an inflected filiform apex; anthers lanceolate, acute, versatile with deeply 
disjoined cells; rudimentary ovary elongate, columnar, subtrigonous, formed by 3 
subulate agglutinate bodies, one-third shorter than stamens. Female spadiz usually with 
only one inflorescence; this somewhat smaller than in the male spadix, 6-7 cm. 
long, very dense, with the spikelets very short and few-flowered; spathels, involu- 
crophorum and involucre bracteiform, very closely packed, strongly striately veined, 
acute. Female flowers comparatively large, about 1 em. long, elongate-ovoid; the calyx 
divided midway down into 3 triangular acuminate striately veined lobes; the segments 
of the corolla also striately veined, narrower and about as long as or even slightly 
shorter than the lobes of the calyx; ovary with a long conic beak and crowned by 
large, internally lamellose, subulate, recurved stigmas. Fruiting perianth not pedicelliform. 
Fruit shining, black, ovoid, almost smooth, rather large, about 2 cm, long (when not 
quite mature), rounded at the base, gradually narrowed at the summit into a long 
and very stout beak; scales in 15 longitudinal series, slightly convex, not channelled 
along the middle, shining, black in the exposed and yellow in the basal covered 
parts, the point rounded and like the margins coarsely toothed. Seed not seen quite 
mature. 
Hasirat.—Singapore, where discovered by odd in 1853 (Herb. Kew) and found 
again at Selitan and at Buket Timah by Mr. H. N. Ridley. In the Malayan 
Peninsula in the State of Selangore, 15th mile Pahang Track (No. 8776, Herb. 
Cale.) and on Gunong Pantei at about 300 ra. above the level of the sea ( King’s 
collector Herb. Hort. Cale. No. 210); Pulau Tawar (Ridley ). 
OssERVATIONS.-—À very distinct species, allied only to €. conirostris amd €. brachy- 
stachys and with these forming a small aberrant group which, on account of the rather 
large and short spathes, open on the ventral side, one might be induced, on superficial 
examination, to consider as a species of Daemonorops. The white coating on the lower 
surface of the leaflets, which distinguishes this Calamus from the other two of the group, 
is only present in a few Asiatic palms and especially in €. hypoleucus and O, discolor, 
in Korthalsia echinometra and to a lesser degree in C. arborescens. Lobb’s specimen 
consists of a male spadix and some portion of a leaf and bears the note: “6-8 
feet”; the Calcutta specimen No, 210 has a male spadix with 2 partial inflorescences, 
the upper one much smaller than the other, with a note of Sir George King’s 
collector, Mr. Kunstler:—‘ Small palm; stem 18 inches high, 6 to 8 inches in dian. ; 
frond from 5-6 feet long.” Probably this diameter is not tbat of the naked stem, 
but of this covered by the sheaths of the leaves, which in this species probably are 
not tubular,  Ridley's specimen from Singapore bears immature fruits which are 2 
cm. long and resemble very closely those of C. conirostris. 
Prate 221.—Calamus Lobbianus Becc. Male spadix (on the left side in the upper 
part of the plate ),—specimen from Selangore in Herb. Cale.; petiole (under surface) 
and summit of a leaf (upper surface); spadix with almost mature fruit.—From Ridley’s 
specimen collected also at Selangore ( Herb. Bece, ). 
