Calamus.] CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 439 



in a flagellum, spathels cymbiform acute, flowers % in. long. Mart. 

 Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 332; Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 35; 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 43 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 438, v. 829 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. xliii. ii. 209, t. 23, 24 (excl. longisetus) ; For. Fl. ii. 516. C. schiz- 

 ospathus, Griff. II. cc. 32 & 41, t. 187 ; Mart. 1. c. 332 ; Walp. 'II. cc. 482, 

 829 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 7. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, ASSAM, SILHET, CHITTAG-ONG, the KHASIA HILLS, MTJN- 

 NIPORE and PEGU, ascending to 4000 ft. 



Stems densely tufted 12-18 ft. high, internodes 2-3 in. long, 1-1 in. diam. 

 Leaves 12-18 ft. ; leaflets few, 1^-2 ft. by l-2 in., l.nerved ; young petiole fur- 

 furaceous, spines on the full-grown petiole in. and upwards. Spadices 1-2 ft. ; 

 spikes 6-10 in. by | in. across the imbricating coriaceous spathels. Calyx acutely 

 3-toothed ; corolla thrice as long. Stamen free, filaments broad, erect. Fruit about 

 1 in. long, ovoid-oblong, subtended by the spreading perianth; scales trapezoid, 

 dark brown with a yellow base. 



Var. ft. COLLINA, Becc. ; smaller, petiole with solitary or sparingly clustered 

 spines, spadices shorter often depauperate shortly peduncled, tip not or shortly 

 cirrhiferous, fruit ellipsoid. C. collinus, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 31 ; 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 39 (excl. leaf), t. 186 (spadix only}. Khasia hills. 



' Var. 7. MACROCARPA, Becc., fruits larger. C. macrocarpus, Griff, in Mart. I.e. 

 333, t. 176, f. x. Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 40, t. 186, A. f. i. ii. Walp. II. cc. 484, 

 380. Sikkim, &c. 



2. C. flag-ellum, Griff, in Mart. Hint. Nat. Palm. iii. 333, 1. 176, f. ix. ; 

 stem stout at length scandent, leaflets subopposite linear-lanceolate con- 

 colorous margins and midrib beneath remotely setulose, petiole furfuraceous 

 rachis and peduncle of the spike and upper spathes armed with short 

 recurved spines, leaf-sheaths scurfy bearing a clawed flagellum armed 

 with long and short spines and bristles. Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 48; 

 Walp. Ann. iii. 484, v. 830; Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 8. C. 

 Jenkinsianus, Griff. 1. c. 40, t. 186 A., f. iii. (not 89). PC. polygamus, 

 Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 780. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, ASSAM, SILIIET, and the KHASIA HILLS, ascending to 

 4000 ft. 



Stem 1-H i n - diam. Leaves 6-7 ft. ; leaflets 2-2 ft. by 1-1^ in. broad, con- 

 colorous; petiole 1-1^ ft. Spathes tubular, lowest 1^-2 ft., compressed, upper 

 lacerate. Spadix 8-10 ft. ; spikes 8-10 in., pendulous, unarmed ; spathels very 

 like C. erectus. Flowers $ in. long, decurved. Calyx 3-tid to the middle. Corolla 

 twice as long. Stamens free. Fruit 1 by f in. , ovoid-oblong, cuspidately beaked, 

 subtended by the spreading perianth ; scales deeply furrowed, pale with a dark band 

 down the middle. 



** Albumen equable. 



f Erect or scandent. Noflagellum on leaf -sheath or spadix. 



3. C. arbor escens, Griff, in Cole. Journ- Nat. Hist. v. 33; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 42, t. 188 A, B, C ; stem erect tufted stoloniferous, leaflets 

 equidistant linear-lanceolate white beneath margins closely setulose, 

 midrib beneath and sometimes above setose, petiole scurfy, armed 

 with whorls or half whorls of long flat black spreading spines, spadix 

 very long pendulous, spathels very short closely imbricate truncate. 

 Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 332 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 483, v. 829 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. iii. 113 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. -ii. 208, t. 22 ; For. Fl. ii. 

 516. C. hostilis, Sort. Gale. 



