Calamus.'] OLXIII. PALMED. (Beocari & Hook, f.) 445 



Brit. 2nd. 66, 1. 197 ; leaflets few inequidistant linear-lanceolate acuminate 

 uppermost crowded at the end of the rachis and often connate, margins 

 and costse beneath setulose, petiole lower spathe and rachis armed with 

 very short stout and long scattered flattened pale spines, sheath densely 

 armed with needle-like setas and spines, spadix elongate decompound, 

 internodes sheathed by truncate ciliate spathels, spikes short spreading 

 and recurved, lower spathe very loner keeled, fruit globose shortly beaked. 

 Mart. Hist. Nat, Palm. iii. 337 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 487, v. 831. C. mish- 

 miensis, Griff. II. cc. 55 and 65 ; Mart. 1. c. ; Walp. Ann. II. cc. C. 

 multiflorus, Mart. Wall. Cat. n. 8613. 



ASSAM, SILHET and the KHASIA HILLS, WallicTi, &c. MISHMI HILLS, 

 Griffith. 



S tern as thick as the middle finger. Leaflets bright green, 10-18 by l-li in.; 

 spines of rachis - 1 in. long, rather flattened and deflexed. Lower spathe 18 in., 

 coriaceous, terete, mouth very oblique. Sipathels acuminate, and flowers almost 

 floccose with long white hairs, striate. Flagelli with sbort or long simple or com- 

 pound recurved claws and spines. Fruit % in. diam. ; scales very pale yellow, 

 channelled down the back. 



20. C. pseudo-tenuis, Becc.mss. ; leaflets many equidistant linear- 

 lanceolate minutely setulose on the margins setose or not on the 3 costae 

 beneath, rachis (young brown scurfy) armed with strong flattened straight 

 and short recurved spines, sheath densely armed with flattened spreading 

 pale spines, spadix very long decompound, spikelets very short decurved, 

 male flowers and spathellules minute quite glabrous, fruit small ovoid 

 strongly beaked. C. tenuis, Thw. Enum. 330 (not of Roxb.). 



CEYLON ; in the hotter parts of the island. DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the 

 WESTERN GHATS j from Canara southwards. 



Stem slender. Leaflets 10-18 by f-f in., upper free; rachis rather stout; 

 petiole short; sheath f in. diam. Scathes flattened, lower 2-edged ; spathels 

 elongate. Spadix 2-3 ft., branches 6-10 in. ; spikes of male fl. very short, of fruits 

 4-6 in. Malefl. -Jj in. long, shining, not striate. Fruit % in. diam. ; scales rounded, 

 pale with broad brown margins. Readily distinguished from viminalis by the equi- 

 distant leaflets, glabrous spathellules, and ovoid fruit. A plant collected by Talbot 

 near the seashore at Marmagoa, Bombay, seems a very different plant, Las black 

 tipped claws on the rachis of the leaf and spadix and flagellum, and curved male 

 flowers in. long. J. D. U. 



21. C. densiflorus, Becc. mss. ; leaves very shortly petioled, leaflets 

 many equidistant linear-ensiform finely acuminate concolorous upper 

 gradually smaller terminal very short margins setulose costae 3 all 

 spinulose above and sparsely setulose on the middle one only beneath, 

 sheath strongly armed with pale flat horizontal spines, spadix very long, 

 spikes elongate dense-fld., spathels and spathellules scabridly pubescent, 

 fruit small beaked ovoid. 



PEKAK ; at Thaiping and Larut, King's Collector (8434, 5527). 



Stem scaudent, 14~H in. diam. with the sheaths. Leaflets rigidulous, larger 

 13-14 by about in. ; sheath with a long stout clawed flagellum, gibbous above, 

 mouth truncate ; rachis armed with strong claws. Sp&dix 5 ft., stout, clawed. 

 Lower spathe strictly sheathing, prickly ; upper unarmed glabrous truncate. Spikes 

 2-3| in. ; spathels and spathellules very short, striate. Fruit immature, with a 

 distinctly pedicelliform perianth, about in. diam ; scales scarcely channelled, pale 

 margined with brown. I have seen no specimens. J. D. H. 



22. C. luridus, Becc. mss. ; leaflets rather numerous equidistant remote 



