Calamus.'] CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 443 



basal pair reflexed on the sheath, petiole very short and rachis armed with 

 short scattered recurved spines, sheath with short straight spines, spadix 

 very long slender, fruit small subglobosely ovoid shortly beaked, scales 

 in 17-18 series. ?C. penicillatus, JRoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 781. 



PENANG and the MALAY PENINSULA ; Perak, alt. 300-3500 ft., King's Collector 

 (1996 $,2673^). 



Stem 10-25 ft., with the leaf-sheaths as thick as the little finger, scandent. 

 Leaves 1^-2 ft. ; leaflets 8-10 by 1^-2^ in., often opposite, the upper pair free or 

 confluent, margins and costae beneath quite smooth ; sheaths and their short spines 

 pale. Spadices very long and slender and long slender spathes armed with small 

 hooked spines ; spikes 2-3 in., slender, in. across the flowers ; spathels densely 

 imbricate, shallow, acute, striate and subscabrid ; flowers J in. long. Calyx 3-fid to 

 the middle. Corolla not striate; segments narrow. Scales in 12-18 series. 

 Q.javensis is, as its name implies, a Javan species. 



Subvar. polyphyllus, Becc. ; as above, but leaflets 8-12 subequidistant, basal 

 reflexed or spreading. Perak, summit of Gunong Tambang Betall, Scortechini 

 (657 b ) ; King's Collector (6312). 



Subvar. intermedius, Becc.; as above, but more slender, and with fewer inequi- 

 distant leaflets. Perak, ScortecMni (236). 



Subvar. tenuissimus, Becc. ; very slender, leaflets fewer (3-4) remote longer, 

 petiole longer, fruit elliptic-obovoid moderately beaked, scales more than 15-seriate. 

 Perak, summit of Guuong Tambang Batok, Scortechini (648 b ). 



Subvar. ? purpurascens, Becc. ; like the type, but leaflets few large basal much 

 reflexed, sheath moderately spiny. Penang, Curtis. Perak, King's Collector 

 (7932). 



Subvar. ?penangiana, Becc. ; as in purpurascens, but sheath with strong spines. 

 -Penang. 



14. C. filipendulus, Becc. mss. 



PERAK; Scortechini, 232 b ; King's Collector (5659, 5773, 8019). 



I have seen no specimens of this species, and fail to draw up a diagnosis of it as 

 distinguished from C. javensis, from Beccari's notes, except as regards the fruit 

 which he describes as ovoid-conic about in. long, gradually narrowed into a very 

 slender acute beak terminated by the recurved stigmas and with the scales in only 

 12 series. The terminal pair of leaflets are confluent, as they are sometimes in 

 C. javensis. 



ft Leaflets many, narrowly ensiform ; upper distinct or hardly connate 

 at the base. 



15. C. rugrosus, Becc. mss. ; stem very slender, leaves long-petioled, 

 leaflets very many equidistant narrowly lanceolate finely acuminate 

 3-costate, upper pair quite free, petiole rachis and spadix very slender 

 armed with few scattered short recurved spines, sheath armed with short 

 straight spines, spadices filiform, branches very distant with few slender 

 spines, spathels scabrid. 



PEHAK; Scortechini. 



Stem with the sheaths j in. diam. Leaflets 7-8 by about i in., concolorous, 

 setulose on the margins and 3 costae above and only on the median beneath, petiole 

 5-7 in., margins acute ; sheath gibbous above, larger spines flat, others minute and 

 seriate. Spathes 2, lower prickly, upper and spathels scabrid. I have seen no 

 specimen. J. D. H. 



16. C radulosus, Becc. mss.; stem slender, leaves sessile, leaflets very 

 many narrowly ensiform equidistant concolorous, margins naked, 3-costate 



