Calamus. ,] CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 453 



Apparently a stout scandent species. Leaflets 12-16 by |-1 in., tips spinelosely 

 ciliate, margins below obscurely aculeolate, pale green, not shining 1 , almost white 

 bt neath, the very distant bristles on the lateral nerves beneath sometimes absent, 

 at others nearly in. long ; rachis and petiole pale. Fruit -f in. diam., very 

 shortly beaked ; scales snbacute, with fiinbriate margins, not channelled ; fruiting 

 calyx nearly in. diam. ; petals acute. 



43. C. Gamble!, Becc. mss. ; leaflets as in C. Suegelianus, but with, 

 shorter scattered bristles OQ the 3 costas of the lower surface and a few on 

 the tipper, fruiting spikes of the spadix recurved, calyx cupular long- 

 pedicelied, lobes very short, fruit globose or broadly obovoid, scales pale 

 }ellow acute deeply channelled. 



KILGHIKI HILLS ; Makurti forests, alt. 5000 ft., Gamble. 



A very distinct species differing from Huegtlianus by the longer leaflets, 2-2% ft., 

 the more slender spathellules, longer pedicel of the more campauulate calyx which 

 lias shorter lobes, and by the pale fruit with deeply channelled scales. A variety 

 with spherical fruit is mentioned by Beccari. 



GROUP VII. See p. 438. 



44. C. gracilis, Roa-b. Fl. Ind. iii. 781 (excl. Syn. Hort. Hal.) ; leaflets 

 few in opposite groups of 3-5 on each ^ide of the slender rachis elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate 3-7-costate, costae very slender more or less setose 

 above, petiole short and rachis and sheath armed with short hooked spines, 

 fern, spadix elongate slender drooping flagelliferous spathes tubular 

 acuminate sparingly spinous, upper unarmed, spathels not imbricate, 

 fruiting calyx sessile shortly cylimlric, lobes very short, fruit oblong, scales 

 very pale ripe channelled. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 338 ; Kunth Enum. 

 iii. 209 ; Griff, in Gale. Jo urn. Nat. Hist. v. 54 ; Palms Brit Ind. 64, t. 196 ; 

 Walp. Ann iii. 488, v. 831 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 212, 

 t. 51 C ; For. FL ii. 520. 



The KHASIA HILLS, ascending to 4000 ft.; UPPER ASSAM, Mann. CACHAR, 

 Keenan. CHITTAGONG, Kurz. 



Slender, snmdent; naked stem not thicker than a quill. Leaves 2-3 ft. ; leaflets 

 5-7 in., mai gins obscurely bristly except at the tip where the bristles are long; 

 petiole very short and rachis fugaciously scurfy ; sheaths green, glabrous Spathes 

 fugaciously brown-scurfy ; spathels unarmed. Corolla three times as long as the 

 c.ilyx. Fruit f iu. long ; scales straw-cold, with or without a narrow brown border; 

 fruiting calyx pedicelliform. Seed wrinkled. Descript. chiefly from Kurz. 



45. C. melanacanthus, Mart. Eist. Nat. Palm. iii. 333, t. 116, f. 13 

 (in part] ; leaflets many equidistant membranous linear with capillary t'ps 

 3-costate upper much shorter, shortly setose or naked on the cost 33 beneath, 

 rachis with a single row of short recurved black spine's, sheath with sub- 

 whorled spines, fern, spadix decompound ending in a flagellum, spathes 

 shortly sparsely spinous uj per nearly unarmed, fruiting calyx sessile cam- 

 panulate pedicelliform, fruit ellipsoid shortly beaked, scales very pale 

 channelled, embryo lateral. Kunth Enum. iii. 211 ; Griff, in Gale Journ. 

 Nat. Hi*t. v. 49 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 59 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 484, v. 830 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Hat. iii. 119 ; Palm. Archip. Ind. 27 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 JBeng. xliii. ii. 215, t. xx. B. Wall. Cat. 8606 B. 



TENASSEEIM ; at Chapnedong, Wallich. 



Scandent. Leaflets 6-13 by % in., upper 2-3 in., shining, tips sparsely bristly or 

 naked. Corolla hardly longer than the (fruiting) calyx-lobes. Fruit f in. long, 

 greyish yellow with very narrow brown margins; lobes very .short. Albumen 



