450 CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [Calamus. 



costse almost unarmed, ractris armed with straight and recurved strong 

 solitary and binate spines with swollen bases, sheath armed with close- 

 set straight subulate spines, male spadix long very slender sparsely shortly 

 armed, inflorescences short subsessile paniculately branched, spikelets very 

 short few-fld. upper spathes with very short sheaths and flat linear-oblong 

 lamina?, spathellules very short acute, corolla twice as long as the calyx 

 not striate. Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Mist. v. 75 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 83 ; 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng.< xl. 214. C. polyspathos, Wall. Cat. 8610. 

 Dasmonorops platyspathus, Mart. I. c. Ed. 2, 206, 329 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. iii. 99 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 479, v. 828. 



TENASSERIM, at Tavoy, G-omez, 



Leaflets 10-12 by 1-1^ in., rigid, margins bristly towards the apex, young pale 

 softly scurfy beneath, margins thickened with obscure distant asperities. Upper 

 spathes 3-4 by ^-^ in., flat. Inflorescences of male spadix as long as their spathes, 

 very compound ; spikelets - in. Flowers y 1 ^ in. long, pale, close-set, pointing 

 forwards. Calyx sharply toothed, striate. Fern, spadix and fruit unknown. 



35. C. paspalanthus, Becc. mss. ; leaflets equidistant close-set very 

 narrow finely acuminate 3-costate costae closely spinulose beneath more 

 remotely above, margins nearly smooth, petiole very long white armed 

 below with flat appressed long and short spines, rachis brown scurfy 

 rounded beneath with short recurved single and trifid spines, lower 

 spathe very long tubular armed with short spires, male spadix stout erect 

 decompound with erect branches and very short lacerate spathels, spikes 

 erect very dense-fld., spathellules closely imbricating lunate very strongly 

 nerved, flowers minute. 



PERAK; at Goping, King's Collector (577). DISTEIB. Borneo. 



Leaves not flagelliferous ; leaflets 4-10 by ^ in., shining, strict ; petiole about 



2 ft., white, but covered with a fin,e brown scurf when young; sheath flagelliferous. 

 Spadix quite unlike any other, from the upright branches and spike?, and dilacerate 

 short membranous spathels. Spikes ^ f in., strict, like those of some Panicum 

 spathellules very peculiar, flabellately nerved. Male fl. distichous, spreading hori- 

 zontally, -J-j- in. long. Calyx cupular, striate, broadly obtusely lobed. Corolla not 

 twice as long ; petals broadly elliptic, obtuse, obscurely striate. I have seen no 

 complete spathe. Described from Borneo specimens collected at Sarawak by Lobb, 

 which Beccari says are identical with those from Perak (which I have not seen). 

 He adds that its affinities are uncertain, and it is perhaps allied to C. leptospadix. 



36. C. ramosissimus, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 78; 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 87, t. 207 ; leaflets very large scattered ensiform or 

 elliptic-lanceolate acute coriaceous many-costate, margins and costss 

 sm( oth, petiole very stout armed below with scattered very long straight 

 flat and many small spines, rachis very stout back rounded armed with 

 broad short recurved solitary and 2-3-nate claws, male spadix ovoid 

 decompound erect densely branched, peduncle very stout tomentose, 

 branches and spikes erecto-patent, spathes very large blade thickly coria- 

 ceous lower with a spinous tube, upper open, fern, spadix furfuraceous with 

 very stout simple spikes, spathellules of both sexes very short. Daemono- 

 rops ramosissimus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 330 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 iii. 100 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 479, v. 828. 



MALACCA ? Griffith. PEBAK ; Larut, on Gunong Tjuk, Scortechini (51 b , 1235) ; 

 alt. 2500-3500 ft., King's Collector (2617, 2910, 6342, 7181). 



Stem 20-30 ft., scandent, 1-1^ in. diam. Leaves 6-8 ft., dark green, glossy ; 

 leaflets 18-24 by 1^-2 in., 7-13-costate, almost plicate ; rachis as thick as the little 

 finger, plano-convex, spines i in. long, recurved, longer spines on lower part of 

 petiole 1 in., on sheath 2-3 in. Blade of lower spathe 1-2 ft. by 1-2 in. Inflo- 



