490 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC; GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [(, Kunzeanus 
very easily recognizable species by its rusty and scabrid indumentum and especially 
by the peculiar disposition of its leaflets, which in no other species known io me 
are so conspicuously deflexed or turned in the same direction with the prickles of 
the rachis, while as a rule the prickles or claws of ihe rachis are pointing down- 
wards and the leaflets upwards; very curious are also the two small spines at the 
base of the leaflets, decussating with the larger ones of the rachis. This species 
apparently stands alone amongst the cirriferous species with non-flagelliferous spadices 
and a pedicelliform fruiting perianth. 
PLATE 225.—Calamus ferrugineus Bece. The lower portion (with its sheath) and 
an intermediate portion of a leaf; the cirrus; female spadix with not yet expanded 
flowers,—from  Lobb's specimen in the Caleutta Herb. Female spadix with immature 
fruit,—from Bece. P. B. No. 563. 
194, Catamus KUNZEANUS Bece. sp. n. 
Descrietion.—fruit small, 1 cm. long, 8 m. broad, obovoid, round at both 
ends especial at the summit, where not mucronate; scales in 12 longitudinal series, 
very few in each series, shining, straw-coloured, relatively large, rather convex and 
rather loosely imbricate, slightly channelled along the middle, with a narrow dark 
marginal line, their point very obtuse, the margins finely erosely toothed. Fruiting - 
perianth explanate ; the calyx split down to the base into 3 very broad, almost 
orbieular, very boldly striately veined lobes; the segments of the corolla as long as 
the calyx, ovate and also strongly striately veined. Seed ellipsoid, somewhat flattened, 
about 7 mm. long, 5 mm. broad and 3°5 mm. thick, its surface unequal with small 
depressions and straight ridges (when cleaned from the crustaceous, brittle, once fleshy, 
integument; especially radiating from the chalazal fovea; this deep, circular, placed 
in the centre of the raphal side; albumen equable; embryo in the centre of the 
face, opposite to the chalazal fovea.—Other parts unknown. 
; Hasrrar.—In Cambodia where collected by Dr. Otto Kunze in March 1875 
( Herb. Berol. ). 
OssERvaATIONS.—I should not have named this species from the fruit only, 
were not this so peculiar and its characters so rarely met with in the genus 
Calamus. The fruit round at the top, not beaked, with few scales; the seed with 
equable albumen; the embryo in the centre of one of the faces and the explanate 
perianth distinguish this species from all the others where the fruit is known. 
Puate 226, IV.—Calamus  Kunzeanus Bece. Fig. 14, mature fruit; fig. 15, 
fruiting perianth seen from above; fig. 16, seed, raphal view; fig. 17, the seed 
represented in fig. 16 as seen from the embryo side; fig. 18, seed longitudinally 
cut through the embryo and the chalazal fovea; the same seed as represented 
in fig. 18 transversely ent Lue the embryo ‘and the chalazal fovea. All figures 
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