C. humilis | BECCARI MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS CALAMUS. 499 
9.  Caramus EXTENSUS Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, (1832), 777; Mart. Hist, Nat. 
Palm. iii, 210 (first edit, and excl. fig. IV, 1 in pl. 116) and 
$39; Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 61 and Palms Brit 
India, 71; Kunth, Enum. Pl. iii, 209; Walp. Ann. iii, 489 and 831; 
Hook. f. and Becc. in Hook. f. Fl Brit. Ind. vi, 462; Becc. in 
Rec. Bct. Surv. Ind. ii, 217. 
Descripiton.—‘‘ Scandent. Leaves flagelliferous; leaflets alternate, remote, equi- 
distant, narrow-lanceolar. Spines in belts, slender. Berries sphaerical" ( Roxburgh 
b 6.) | 
Hasrrat.—‘ Den-gullar, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indigenous, 
and is of great extent, say two or three hundred yards; when cleaned, toward the 
base, it is not thicker than a man's fore-finger, but as thick as the wrist toward the 
apex. The length of the joint is from six to twelve inches.” ( Roxburgh l. c.) 
OssERvATIONS.— The above is all that Roxburgh has written about this species. 
Apparently when ‘Roxburgh speaks of leaves flagelliferous, we must understand that 
the leaves are prolonged beyond the leaflets into a cirrus, while when the flagelli are 
on the leaf-sheaths, as in C. Rotang, fasciculetus and tenuis, he uses the term “sheath 
flagelliferous.” Now amongst the Calamus (including Daemonorops ) of Silhet which 
have cirriferous leaves and are high scandent and with a spbaeric fruit I know only 
Daemonorops -Jenkinsianus. I have elsewhere pointed out that the length of 200-300 
yards attributed by Roxburgh to a Calamus must be considered quite hyperbolic, 
6. CarLaMus GRAMINOSUS Bl. Rumphia, iii, 31 (2); Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm 
ini, 342; Walp. Ann. iii, 491 and v, 832; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 
138 and De Palmis Arch. Ind. 29; H. Wendl. in Kerch. Les Palm. 
236; Becc. Malesia, i, 88. 
Paimijuncus graminosus Rumph. Herb. Amb. v, 104; Hassk. Neuer Schl. 
zu Rumph’s Herb. Amb., 100 ( excl. many syn. ). | 
HanrrAT.—Amboina, where it receives the Malay name of “Rottan Alea" and 
the Amboinese one of “Ua Laun Sehi.” 
OnsERvATIONS— Of this Calamus, barely recognisable, Rumph writes that it is a 
variety of Palmijuncus albus ( C. albus) and that like this has tbe leaves produced 
into a clawed cirrus, but that the leaflets are smaller, 10-12 inches long and not 
quite as wide as 2 man's little finger, and that the leaf-sheaths are armed with 
white flexible scattered spines. Rumph adds that the meaning of the native names 
is the Rotang with leaves like those of the Ginger. 
7. Catamus nummts Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 773; Kunth, Fnum. Plant. iii, 213; 
Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 213 ( first edit.) and 332; Walp. Ann. 
iii, 483 and v, 829; Griff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 35 and 
Palms Brit. India, 43; Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlii, 2 
(1874), 215; Hook. f. and Becc. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 
462; Becc. in Rec. Dot. Surv. Ind. ii, 217. 
Ann, Roy. Bor. Garp, Cascurra Vou, XI. 
