Calamus.] cxlvii. palm^ (wright). 100 



bose ; stigmas 3, long. Female flower enclosed in a bracteole together 

 with a male or neuter flower, yellow. Calyx and corolla as in the 

 male. Staminodes G. Ovary oblong ; stigmas 3, shortly recurved, tri- 

 angular. Fruit ovoid, attenuate at the apex, 7-8 lin. long, 4 lin. diam. ; 

 scales in 19-21 rows, rather convex, marked with a shallow median 

 furroNV, shining, margin membranous, erose, brown. Seed 4-5 lin. 

 long, oblong-ellipsoid, slightly compressed, rugulose ; chalaza dorsal, 

 incrassate; albumen horny; embryo basal, erect, close to the hilum. — 

 Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Ill; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 80. 

 Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Bagru River, Mann, 895 ! Cameroons : 

 Cameroon River, Mann, 2147 ! Gold Coast : Kibbi, in Akim district, Johnson, 242 ! 

 Ashanti, Cummins, 128 ! 



2. C. niger, Willd. Sp. PL ii. 203. A palm armed with many long 

 subulate dark brown spines. Leaves remote; petiole semiterete, 1 in. 

 thick, beset with many short spines ; sheath covered with subulate 

 spines ; leaflets many, linear-lanceolate, very acuminate, 15 in. long, 4 in. 

 wide, 3-nerved, midrib prominent, margins setigerous ; rhachis cirrhi- 

 ferous above, furnished with uncinate spines. Spadices near the apex 

 of the stem, nodding, paniculately branched ; peduncle long. Fruit 

 globose, nearly 1 in. diam., with a short mucro on the obtuse apex ; 

 scales reddish when ripe. — J. Braun & K. Schum. in Mitth. Deutsch. 

 Schutzgeb. ii. (1889) 147. D<jemonorops niger, Blume, Rumphia, iii. 5. 

 Dcemonorops melanochcetes, Mart. Palm. iii. 203, partly ; Kunth, Enum. 

 iii. 202. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons, Braun. 

 Ako in the Malayan Archipelago. 



3. C. Barter!, Becc. ex Drude in Engl. Jahrh. xxi. 134. Stem 

 30-50 ft. long, about the thickness of the finger. Rhachis of leaf not 

 produced into a cirrhus ; leaflets lanceolate-oblong ; margins, midrib on 

 both surfaces and secondary nerves on the under surface only beset ^\'ith 

 fine pungent hairs 1 lin. long. Ultimate branches of the spadix disti- 

 chous, compressed, 9-14 lin. apart, 2|-3^ in. long, each bearing 30-40 

 flowers distichously arranged ; bracteoles of the male flowers half as long 

 as the flowers, with two wing-like keels. Calyx J-J as long as the 

 corolla. Corolla narrowed at the base into a short pedicel. Stamens G, 

 nearly as long as the corolla ; anthers versatile, fixed at their centre to 

 the three-sided subulate filaments. Rudiment of ovary shortly trifid, 

 scarcely as long as the filaments. Fruit 6 lin. long, 4-5 lin. in. diam.. 

 acuminate ; scales in about 20 rows, rhomboid, darker and slightly fim- 

 briate at the margins. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Mnsaia, in raarsliy ground, climbing. Scoff- 

 Mliot, 5121 ! Kambia, Scott-Mliot, 4738, and without precise locality, Scotf-Elliot, 

 4460 (ex Drude). Niger Territory : Lower Niger; Onitsa, Barter, 110! 



In Barter's specimen a cirrhus nearly 2 ft. long, bearing numerous recurved 

 spines, springs from within one of the leaf-sheaths, " Stem much used in the lower 

 part of the river [Niger]," Barter. " Used for making rope. Native name ' Temhi,' " 

 Scott'Elliot, 



