452 CLXIII. PALMEJE. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [Calamus. 



GROUP Y. See p. 437. 



40. C. travancoricus 9 Beddome mss. ; leaflets in distant opposite 

 groups of 3-5 narrowly oblanceolate acuminate thin, costse 3 very slender 

 naked above sparsely setulose beneath, rachis and petiole very slender 

 armed with small straight and recurved spines, sheath armed with slender 

 straight flattened prickles, spadix long slender flagelliferous, inflorescences 

 shorter than the membranous flat spathes, male decompound, fern, with 

 simple distichous spikes, upper spathes and spithels tubular obliquely 

 truncate, spathellules short acute, calyx strongly striate, corolla estriate 

 twice as long. Rheede Hort. Mai. xii. t. 64. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; from Malabar to Travaucore, Wight, Beddome. 



Stem very slender, scandent. Leaves 18-24 in. ; leaflets 4-6 by i f in., broadest 

 about or above the middle and thence tapering 1 to a capillary point, suiniug above ; 

 rachis scurfy when young ; petiole 4-6 in., dorsally rounded, margins acute much 

 compressed towards the base and there chiefly spiny. Spadix flagelliferous, 2-3 ft. ; 

 peduncle short, flattened, young white scurfy, margins shortly spiny. Lower 

 spathes tubular, compressed at the base, with shortly spinous angles, produced into a 

 long membranous sheathing lamina ; upper with unarmed tubes. Inflorescences about 

 2 in. long, miles with spreading very slender branches bearing short flexuous almost 

 capillary spikes of flowers |- in. long; fern, with simple recurved spikes and rather 

 larger flowers. Rheede's tigure is very good for its time. 



41. C. Rheedei, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 73 ; Palms Brit. 

 2nd. 36, 83 ; leaflets in very distant groups of 3 on a long rachis armed 

 with scattered short recurved spines linear-lanceolate acuminate, fruiting 

 spadix with the flat open acute spathes longer than the ovoid dense clusters 

 of ellipsoid or oblong fruit. Daemonorops Rheedii, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 

 iii. 330 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 100 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 479, v. 828. Rheede 

 Hort. Mai. xii. t. 65. 



MALABAR, Rheede. 



Of this species nothing is known beyond Rheede's rude plate, which is very infe- 

 rior to that of C. travancoricus, from which it differs in the much longer leaf the 

 leaflets being grouped in threes, one of each group apparently on one side of the rachis 

 and 2 on the other; four leaflets terminate the rachis. The fruit? are represented as 

 f in. long by in. broad and very shortly beaked. Beccari thinks that a Calamus 

 fruit sent from Malabar to Kew by Major Campbell exactly corresponds to Rueede'a 

 figure. 



GROUP VI. See p. 438. 



42. C. Hueg-elianus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 338; leaflets many 

 equidistant elongate ensiform acuminate strongly 3-costate, margins 

 smooth unarmed above beneath pale and with a very few long bristles on 

 the lateral costae, petiole stout young scurfy back rounded with very stout 

 short recurved spines, sheath armed with very stout scattered long and 

 short spines, fern, spadix stout erect, spathes sparingly armed with stout 

 claws narrowly tubular truncate, fruiting branches 6-10 in. very stout, 

 spikes recurved, calyx pedicelled cupular with spreading lobes, fruit globose 

 black shining. Walp Ann iii. 488, v. 831. 0. Wightii, Griff. Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 102, t. 216 C. C. melanolepis. If. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm. 237. 

 Dasmonorops melanolepis, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm iii. 331, t. 175, f. xi. ; 

 342 under C. dioicus and tab. 116, f. xi. ; Walp. II. cc. 481, and 829. 



NILGHIRI HILLS ; alt. 5-6000 ft., at Sisparah, Wight, &c. ; at Kaduvatarn, 

 Gamble. 



