Calamus.'] CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 451 



rescences of male spadix 10-12 by 3-4 in., furfuraceous ; peduncle as thick as the 

 little finger, compressed; branches fustigiate, strict, suberect; spikes distichous, 

 1-1^ in.; spathellules very shallow; flowers close-set, pointing forwards, in. long, 

 Calyx shortly tubular, obliquely acutely trifid, striate. Corolla twice as long, smooth. 

 Fern, spadix sessile ; spikes 1^-2^ in., browu scurfy, in. diam. Fruit (young) 

 globose with a very stout beak ; scales all brown Described from a Perak specimen, 

 the male spadix of which does not resemble the slender lax flowered one of Griffith's 

 t. 207. 



37. C. perakensiSj Sere. mss. ; stem erect very short, leaves terminal, 

 leaflets very numerous equidistant strictly ensit'orm acutely 3-costate 

 above spinulose on 3 costae above and only on the median beneath, petiole 

 long armed with long stout horizontal marginal spines, male and fern, 

 spadices subsimilar strict erect more or less sprinkled with white cottony 

 tomentum, spathes unarmed much compressed shorter than their respec- 

 tive partial inflorescences, fern, spadix not very decompound, flowers 

 cylindric. 



PERAK, Scortechini (317 b ). 



The above description is from Beccari's notes, who adds' that it is a very distinct 

 species, somewhat allied to C. ramosissimus. I have seen no specimen. J.D.H. 



38. C. hypoleucus, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 523 ; leaflets alternately and 

 interruptedly approximate by twos on each side oblong-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate ciliate towards the apex white beneath many-costate, petiole short 

 armed with long and short conical straight and recurved spines, rachis 

 with scattered recurved spines, sheaths densely spiny with unequal ppines 

 1 in. long and less, fern, spadix small short, peduncle slender spiaous, 

 spathes oblong-lanceolate, spathels tubular small distant, flowers dis- 

 tichous, calyx 2 1 * in- shortly 3-lobed, corolla twice as long segments acute. 

 Daemonorops hypoleucus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 208 

 (partim), t. xviii. (excl. t. xix.). 



BURMA; on Thoungyeen, Brandis. 



Stem slender, sc;indent, as thick as a goose-quill without the sheaths. Leaves 

 2-3 ft., not flagelliferous ; sheaths flagelliferous ; leaflets 6-9 in. long. Fern, spadix 

 12 in. long; peduncle about 1 in. Male fl. and fruit unknown. Description from 

 Kurz. I have seen no specimen. J.D.H. 



39. C. myriantlms, JSecc. mss. ; leaflets very long narrowly elliptic- 

 lanceolate many-costate pale almost white beneath smooth on both sur- 

 faces or with minute bristles on the costas beneath, margin obscurely 

 aculeolate, rachis dorsally rounded shortly spinous, male spadix very long 

 slender sparsely spinous, spathels tubular truncate, inflorescences laxly 

 decompound, branches very slender, spike i-| in. zigzag almost filiform, 

 spathellules minute, flowers minute pointing forward closely imbricate, 

 calyx acutely 3-lobed striate, corolla twice as long acute estriate. 

 Daemonorops hypoleucus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Seng, xliii. ii. 208 (partim) 

 t. xix. 



TENASSEEIM ; at Mergui, Heifer (Kew distrib. 6397). 



The only materials for this species seen by me are Heifer's specimens, consisting 

 of a portion of the rachis of a leaf with two leaflets, and portions of a male spadix ; 

 the leaflets are 30 by 2 in., very thin and pale beneath, with indistinct cross nervules. 

 Beccari has identified with it the plate xix. of Kurz r s C. hypoleucus on the faith of 

 some specimen supposed to be of Kurz's plant communicated by Dr. Brandis. That 

 figure represents much shorter and broader leaflets than those of Helfei-'s plant, with 

 distinct bristles on the margins and costse beneath. There is no evidence of Heifer's 

 plant belonging to this section. J.D.H. 



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