440 CLXIII. PALMEJE. (Beccari & Hook, f.) \_Calamus. 



PEGU ; in marshy places, Griffith. 



Stem 15-20 ft., 2^ in. diam. ; internodes 7 in., crown densely leafy. Leaves 

 5-6 ft., decurved leaflets 8-18 in. by 1-1 broad ; petiole naked except for the long 

 usually very black spines ^-2 in. long. Loioer spathes with many half-whorls of 

 short black spines ; upper short, unarmed. Spadices longer than the leaves, very 

 graceful ; spikes 46 in. long by % in. across the flowers, which are nearly ^ in. long, 

 curved. Calyx trifid to the middle. Petals oblong-lanceolate, acute. Stamens 

 shortly monadelphous. 



4. C. castaneus, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 28 ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 37, t. 185 A, B, C ; stem very short stout, leaves very long, 

 leaflets very many equidistant linear 3-costate margins and costee beneath 

 remotely prickly, petiole very stout and short, sheaths armed with very 

 unequal scattered solitary or 2-3-nate rather short straight stout flattened 

 pale spines, spadices erect or nodding very stout nearly unarmed, male 

 decompound, spathels very short and broad. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 

 331 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 482 ; v. 829 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 112. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1533) ; PERAK at Gopung, King's 

 Collector (5880). 



Stem 3-5 ft., with the sheaths 3-4 in. diam. Leaves with the petiole 12-15 ft. ; 

 leaflets 12-24 by l-2 in., very dark green, young scurfy beneath ; petiole as thick 

 as the little finger, rounded with a channelled upper surface. Spathes generally 

 unarmed. Spadices 2-3 ft., male panicled, elongate flexuous, fern, shorter, nearly 

 as broad as long, simply branched ; spikes of male 2-3 in., of fern, much larger, 

 scorpioidly recurved, ^ in. broad. Male fl. -| in. long. Calyx trifid to the middle. 

 Petals hardly longer. Stamens inflexed in bud. Fern. fl. larger. Fruit 1 in. long, 

 ellipsoid, embraced at the base by the erect perianth ; strongly beaked, scales in 

 24-26 rows, minute, dark brown. 



5. C. ariffithianus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 332 ; closely allied 

 to C. castaneus, and dwarf like it, in the leaflets spadices, &c., but the 

 petioles are described as terete, and the fruits are larger more globose 

 with fewer (18-20) rows of larger scales. Walp. Ann. iii. 482 ; v. 829 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 112. C. castaneus (partly] Griff, in Gale. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. v. 29. C. castaneus, var. a Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 38. 



MALACCA, Griffith. PERAK, King's Collector (3040, 3048). 

 Probably only a form of castaneus. 



ft Scandent, stout. Leaf- sheath flagelliferous. Spadix long, often 

 flaaeUiform. SpiJcelets much flattened. 



6. C. longrisetus, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 36; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 44, t. 189 A J , B ; scandent or erect ? glabrous, leaflets lanceolate 

 concolorous, lower fascicled 3-costate, margins and midrib above and be- 

 neath and. lateral nerves beneath, setulose, terminal connate, petiole and 

 its sheath and lower spathes densely armed with whorls and half whorls 

 of straight black flattened spines intermixed with scattered shorter ones-, 

 male spadices decompound nodding, upper spathes unarmed, spathels 

 densely imbricate truncate, fruit ovoid-oblong narrowed into a very stout 

 beak. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 333 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 483 ; v. 830 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 114. C. tigrinus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 

 211, t. xxiv. xxvi. ; For. Fl. ii. 519. 



PEGU, Hort. Sot. Calc., Qri/. (Kew Distrib. 6392), McLelland; BURMA, and 

 the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. 



Stem upwards of 1 in. diam. Leaves 4-8 ft., rachis not flagelliferous ; leaflets l-2 



