Calamus.~\ CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 449 



inflorescence sheathed HP to the spikelets, frait obovoid or globose shortly 

 beaked brown. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 333, t. 176, f. vi. ; Waif. Ann. 

 iii. 484, v. 830. C. montanus, Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 9. 



EASTEEN NEPAL, SIKKIM and BHOTAN HIMALAYA, ascending to 6000 ft., 

 J. D. H., &c. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 2-4000 ft., Griffith, Ac. - 



Stem slender, scandent, as thick as a swan's quill. Leaves 2-3 ft. ; leaflets 

 10-16 by 2-3 in., margins naked or spinulose. both surfaces quite naked or very 

 rarely with a few small spines on the costse of the upper surface ; flttgellum of the 

 sheith 10-12 ft. Spadix 4-6 ft., erect, armed with short recurved spines ; branches 

 of fruiting spadix very stout; spikes 1-4 in., strongly recurved. Lower spathe 1 ft., 

 scurfy, as thick as the thumb; uppermost glabrous. Fruit -| in. diam., pericarp 

 thin ; scales chesnut brown, obscurely channelled, shining ; fruiting calyx large, 

 cupular, in. diam., lobes very short. Seed deeply pitted. 



GROUP IV. See p. 437. 



32. C. Guruba, Ham. in Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 206 and 330, 

 t. 175, f. 1 ; leaflets alternate equidistant narrowly linear, margins 

 and 3 costae above setose midrib usually alone setose beneath, long 

 slender petiole and rachis armed with long brown recurved and short 

 conical spines below and on the margins, sheaths flagelliferous covered 

 with long flattened spyies and crowded smaller ones, spathes glabrous 

 tube of lower compressed margins with long spines back with short ones, 

 limb recurved, upper spathes Dearly unarmed, male spadix elongate very 

 slender decompound, spikes spreading very slender, spathellules very 

 shallow, flowers distichous pointing forwards, fruit pisiform apiculate. 

 Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 42 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 54 ; Kunth 

 Enum. iii. 210 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 214 ; For. Fl. ii. 

 522. C. Mastersianus, Griff. II. cc. 76 aiid 84. t. 206. Dsemonorops 

 Guruba, Mart. 1. c. 330 ; Walp. II. cc. 479 and 828 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 iii. 100. 



BR.VGAL, ASSAM, the KHASIA HILLS, SILHET, CHITTAGONG and BURMA. 



Tall, scandent, stem without the sheaths very slender. Leaves 5-6 ft. ; leaflets 

 12-15 by -f in., upper smaller free, sometimes quite naked on both surfaces ; sheath 

 with a long membranous lacerate ligule. Spathes with terete tubular bases and 

 long flat thinly coriaceous obtuse brown laminae, of the lower 12-18 long by 1-1 

 broad, flagellum very stout and stoutly armed. Male spikes 2-3 in., flexuous ; spathel- 

 lules very small membranous cups. Flowers ^ in. long, c<ilyx striate ; corolla twice 

 as long, polished. Fruit % in. diam., abruptly beaked j scales very pale, obscurely 

 channelled, margin brown. 



33. C. nitidus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 334 ; leaflets equidistant 

 rigidulous close-set linear-lanceolate acuminate shining margins thickened, 

 costaB 3 setulose on both surfaces'or on the upper only, rachis with simple or 

 compound recurved spines, spadices decompound, spathes glabrous, fruit 

 globose, scales brown in the middle 17-18-seriate. KuntTi Enum. iii. 211 ; 

 Griff, in Calc. Journ: Nat. Hist. v. 49 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 59 ; Miq. FL 

 Ind. Bat. iii. 117 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 484 ; v. 830 ; Wall. Cat. 8609. 



TENASSERIM, Wallich, Heifer (Kew distrib. (6390, 6396, 6398). 



Very near to and probably not distinct from C. Guruba, but the leaflets are shorter 

 6-7 by - in., and the flowers smaller, about T \j in. long. The specimens are very 

 insufficient. 



34. C. platyspathus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 210 ; leaflets few- 

 scattered alternate ensiform acuminate strongly 5-7-costate, margins 



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