498 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (C. epetiolaris 
C. viminalis B. prostratus Bl. in Roem. eb Schult. Syst. Veg. vii, 2, 1328; 
Kunth, Enum. Plant. iii. 205. 
Palmijuncus viminalis ex Bouro prima species Rumph, Herb. Amb. v, 109 
(excl. pl. LV, f. 2). 
Hasirat.—Buru. Malay name: “ Rottang Vanitette or “R. Vantette” ( Rumph ). 
OsssRvarrows.— This species was based by Martius on plate LV, fig. 2, of 
Rumph’s Herbarium Amboinense, and on the description of Palmiuncus viminalis from 
Burn, which at vol. v., p. 109 of that work begins with the words ‘“ Praecedentis 
Rottang Javae nobis alia obvenit species etc." but the figure represents without a 
shade of doubt C. viminalis from Java, while the description corresponds to C. viminalis 
B. prosiraíus of Blume. Rumph’s description of Palmijuncus viminalis from Buru, how- 
ever, though insufficient for recognising a Calamus, is very probably that of a distinct 
species growing in the Island of Buru, which perhaps in future may be identified 
with the assistance of its native name. 
3.  CaLaMus Curae Blanco Fl. de Filip. edit. 1, i, 268; Miq. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. ii, 113. 
.- Osservations.—It is only known that this is an erect species growing on the 
mountains of Angat in the Philippines, which has not been seen even A its author, 
f Blanco.—Probably not a Calamus. 
4. CALAMUS EPETIOLARIs Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 336; Miq. FI. 
Ind. Bat. iii, 122 and De Palmis, p. 27; Walp. Ann. iii, 486 and v, 
830; H. Wendl. in Kerch. Les Palm. 236; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. 
Ind. ii, 217. 
Description.—Bushy, slender, scandent. Leaf-sheaths gibbous above, armed with 
a few straight broad-based scattered dark-tipped spines. Leaf-sheath flagella slender, 
clawed. Ocrea short, bristly-spinulous. Leaves not cirriferous; the petiole almost 
obsolete; the rachis armed with solitary or geminate brown-tipped hooked prickles, 
Leaflets rather remote,  subequidistant (24-32), all in one plane, lanceolate, 
long-acuminate and cuspidate, almost shining beneath, with a mid-costa and 6 secondary 
nerves, these naked, the first DE on both surfaces. Spadices unknown ( Descript, 
from Martius ,. 
HaBmar.—Java? Reinwardt (Martius). 
OBSERVATIONS —I have not seen the authentic specimen of this species which 
probably is only the juvenile stage of another, which has been des:ribed under a 
different name. Martius says that it resembles €. Aeteroideus in the not numerous 
leaffets and OC. viminalis in -— armature, "und that it differs "on — in the very 
short petiole. 
