Calamus.'] CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f .) 447 



** Fruiting perianth distinctly pedicelliform. 



26. C. tennis? Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 780 ; leaflets very many equidistant 

 uppermost gradually smaller linear-lanceolate acuminate 3 costae all setose 

 above, the median only below, petiole short margined with straight 

 spines and rachis armed with one row of short recurved spines, 

 sheaths flagelliferous sparingly armed with short flat spines, spadix very 

 long decompound flagelliferous, spathes elongate tubular lower with a 

 short limb and scattered recurved spines, partial short unarmed young 

 scurfy, spathellules densely crowded cymbit'orm, flowers very small, fruit 

 subglobose. Kunih Enum. iii. 211 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. (Ed. 1, 

 212), 335 ; G-riff. in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 46 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 57, t. 

 193 A, B, 0; Walp. Ann. iii. 485, v. 830; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 118; 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beny. xliii. ii. 212, t. 31 B ; For. Fl. ii. 520. 0. 

 Royleanus, G-riff. II. cc. 40 and 53, t. 191 ; Mart. I c. 335 ; Walp. II. cc. 

 485 and 830. C. amarus, Lour. i. 210. C. Heliotropium, Serb. Ham. ; 

 Mart. I. c. 211, 334; Kunth I. c. 210; Griff. II. cc. 51 and. 61; Walp. Ann. 

 II. cc. 484 and 830. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon eastwards, BENGAL, ASSAM, SILHET, 

 CHITTAGONG and BOEMA. DISTEIB. Cochin. 



Stems very long, scandent ; internodes not thicker than a goose-quill. Leaves 

 1^-2 ft. ; leaflets approximate, lower 8-12 by -3- in., margins minutely setulose or 

 spinulose, bristles on costse $ in. ; petiole pale, stout ; spines with broad laterally 

 compressed conical bases; flagelli filiform. Lower spathes 6-10 in. by nearly f in.diam., 

 upper shortly scurfy. Lower spikes panicled, ]|-4 in. long. Male fl. ^ in. long, 

 not distichous and spreading but secund in 3-4 series, imbricating, suberect. Fruit 

 % in. diam., mucronate ; scales pale with a shallow median channel and very narrow 

 discoloured margins. 



27. C. diffusus, Becc. mss. ; leaflets many equidistant rigidulous upper 

 shorter narrowly linear-lanceolate very long-acuminate margins naked 

 slightly thickened, costse 3 setose above the median spinulose beneath, 

 rachis armed throughout with half whorls of hooked spines or 3-fid claws, 

 male spadix diffusely supra-decompound, branches of partial infl. spirally 

 inserted, lower spathe tubular green smooth coriaceous armed with hooked 

 spines on the outer surface, upper tubular-infundibular unarmed, spathels 

 short broad, flowers rather distant, calyx campanulate striate, corolla twice 

 as long. 



SINGAPORE ; Lolb. 



Leaves apparently 2-3 ft. ; leaflets 10-12 by -f in. Male spiJcelets 1-2 in. ; 

 flowers crowded, distichous, -i in. long; spathellules and calyx strongly ribbed; 

 corolla twice as long as the calyx, not striate. Fern. fl. and fruit unknown, position 

 hence uncertain. 



28. C. Rotangr, Linn. Sp. PI. Ed. 1, 325; Ed. 2, 463 (the Ceylon 

 plant only) ; leaflets many equidistant linear-ensiform rarely subaggregate 

 upper smaller, margins spinulose, petiole very short or 0, rachis armed 

 beneath with short stout uniseriate claws, sheath armed with short 

 straight conical based scattered spines, male spadix slender decompound, 

 spikelets ^-1 in. recurved, spathellules short, flowers crowded, corolla 

 deeply striate, fern, spikelets much stouter and longer, flowers distant, fruit 

 globose very pale. Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 202 (excl. Syn. Lour.} ; Lamk. III. 

 t. 770, f. 1 ; Schuli. f. Syst. Veg. vii. ii. 1322 (excl. all cit. but Linn. & 

 Willd.) ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 777 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 334, t. 116, f.8; 

 Kunth Enum. iii. 207 ; Blume Rumph. iii. 33 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 484, v. 830; 



