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



deeply ruminate ; embryo in the middle of the side, a very unusual position in the 

 genus. The specimens examined are of the portion of a leaf and of a fruiting 



46. C- Diepenhorstii, Miq. in Journ. Bot. Neerl. Ind, i. 21 ; Palm. 

 Archip. Ind. 27 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. 594 ; leaflets very many equidistant long 

 narrow finely acuminate 3-costate, costse naked or very sparsely setose 

 above, margins thickened smooth, petiole very long armed with straight 

 scattered spines, rachis angular armed with one row above and two below 

 of short recurved spines, sheath copiously armed with long flat straight 

 deflexed black spines, spadices very long supradecompound, fruiting calyx 

 very short sessile cupular, fruit obovoid shortly beaked, embryo basal. 

 C. melanacanthus, Mart, (partim). Wall. Cat. 8606 A. 



PENANG, Wallich, Curtis (765). PEEAK ; on Gunong Tambang Batok, 

 alt. 500-2000 ft., Scortechini (647 b ). Larut and Gunong Malacca, King's Collector 

 (7201, 2552). DISTEIB. Sumatra. 



Stem 20-30 ft., stout, scandent. Leaves 3-4 ft. j leaflets 18-20 by |-f in., 

 straight, upper smaller ; spines of sheath f | in. long. Fruiting spadix 10-12 ft., 

 slender. Fruit f in. diam., orange-yellow when ripe (King's collector) ; fruiting 

 calyx very short, sessile, lobes obscure ; scales channelled, very narrowly bordered 

 with brown. Very distinct from melanacanthus in the much stouter petiole and 

 rachis, long flat spines on the sheath, long leaflets with thickened margins, very long 

 fern, spadix, with very long branches, and basal embryo. 



P47. C. singraporensis, Becc. mss.-, leaflets many rather distant 

 narrowly linear finely acuminate 3-costate, tips setose, margins and costas 

 on both surfaces unarmed or nearly so, upper part of rachis slender angled 

 with 1-2 rows of short recurved black spines, male spadix very slender 

 flagelliform decompound, spathes very slender tubular lower shortly 

 spinous, upper ending in flat laminae uppermost with oblique membranous 

 mouths, spikes 1 in., spathellules densely imbricate short striate, flowers 

 very young. 



SINGAPORE; in the forest near the Bot. Garden, Murton. 



Apparently a very slender species of doubtful position, known only by an upper 

 portion of a leaf and yoting male spadix. Leaflets 10-12 by - in., margins hardly 

 thickened. 



GKOUP VIII. See p. 438. 



' 48. C. exilis, Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 51 (axilis, 35) ; leaflets many 

 equidistant narrow finely acuminate copiously setulose on the margins, 

 costas and often the intermediate nerves above and beneath, rachis scurfy 

 setose and armed with a single row of hooked spines, petiole long flattened 

 2-edged with marginal straight slender spines, sheath scabrid and armed 

 with short straight flattened spines, fern, spadix decompound scabrid all 

 over as are the spathes, fruit linear oblong sharply beaked. Mart. Hist. 

 Nat. Palm. iii. 333, t. 176, f. 7 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 484, v. 830 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. iii. 116. 



MALACCA ; on Gunong Ladang, Fernandez. PEBAK, Larut and Ulu Bubong, 

 alt. 4000 ft., Scortechini (657 b ), King's Collector (2734, 6245, 8457) 10,259, Serb. 

 Calc.). 



Stem 15-20 ft., f in. diam. Leaves 3-3 ft. ; leaflets 8-10 by J- in., cross 

 nervules strong; petiole scaberulous, with distant dorsal hooked spines and many 

 marginal ; sheath with coarse matted hairs at the mouth. Lower spathes 12-14 in., 

 compressed and 2-edged with slender marginal spines below and smaller ones above, 

 mouth oblique, upper spathes 4-6 in., tubular, armed with small scattered spines. 



