Calamus.] CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 455 



Branches of fern, spadix 6-8 in., coarsely scabrid, bearing short alternate few-fld. 

 spikes; fruiting calyx peilicelled and pedicel liform, campanulate ; lobes as long as 

 the tube and as the petals. Fruit nearly 1 by in. diam., dirty yellow; scales 

 margined with brown. Seed linear-oblong, transversely grooved ; albumen not 

 ruminate; embryo in the middle of the back. 



GROUP IX. See p. 438. 



49. C. tomentosus, Becc. mss.\ sheath, rachis and flagellum softly 

 almost flocculently white-tomentose, leaflets few distant or in distant pairs 

 elliptic acuminate coriaceous strongly nerved, margin crisped or waved. 



PEBAK, Scortechini (431 b ) ; alt. 2500-3000 ft., King's Collector (5332, 6993). 



Stem 20-40 ft., -f in. diam., light grey. Leaves 2-3 ft. ; leaflets 8-14 by 

 3-6 in., base narrowed, green on both surfaces or yellowish beneath with brown stripes 

 above; nerves flabellate; sheath unarmed, ochrea annular very coriaceous, acute 

 posteriorly ; petiole short, very stout, subterete, armed with few distant 3 -fid short 

 claws ; flagellum 8-10 ft., ending in a long filiform prickly tip, armed with strong 

 3-fid claws at about equal distances, towards the base the surface of the petiole is 

 granulate when dry. A portion of a flowerless and fruitless spadix is terete with 

 tubular spathes and bears distant spreading spikes 4 in. long, with rather distant 

 coriaceous subcampannlate spathels. A remarkable plant of which the specimens 

 are very imperfect. The description of the stem and colour of the leaflet is from 

 Dotes by King's Collector; the rest from his specimens, one of which (5332), with 

 smaller leaves is from Larut, " within 300 ft.," perhaps meant for 3UOO (as in 

 n. 6993). 



GROUP X. See page 438. 



50. C. zeylanicuSj Becc. mss. ; leaflets many long equidistant ensi- 

 form long acuminate -5-ccstate, margins minutely setulose or naked, 

 costae very sparingly setose above naked beneath, rachis very stout, male 

 spadix decompound, lower spathe acute armed with very short scattered 

 prickles, upper striate smooth or sparsely aculeate, uppermost funnel-shaped 

 truncate, branches of male spadix 6-10 in. clothed with short broad im- 

 bricate spathels, spikelets very many distichous, spathellules extremely 

 short and densely imbricate, fern, spikes and spikelets much longer and 

 laxer, fruit globose^long-beaked. (J. rudentura, Tkw. Entim. 330 (excl. 

 syn>] (non Lour.} ; Hance in Jo urn. Bot. 1874, 262. 



CEYLON, Walker; Suffragam district, Thwaites (CP. 2874). 



Stem very stout. Leaves probably 4-5 1't. long ; leaflets 1^-2 ft. by 1-1| in., 

 smooth; rachis pale, finely scurfy, with short appres>ed marginal spines above and 

 lower down with 3-fid claws beneath ; flagellum very stout, with very broad claws 

 of 3-6-uate recurved black spines. Ma'e spadix with long spreading branches 

 clothed with short spathels and bearing short broad flat spikelets ^-1 in. long and ^ 

 broad of most densely imbricate short spathellules and small flowers ^ in. lon^. Fe>n. 

 spadix ; branches and spikes much longer j calyx sessile, very short, denply 3-lobed ; 

 fruiting calyx sub-pedicelliform ; petals as long, both striate. Fruit % in. diam., 

 dull yellow ; scales deeply channelled, margins scarious pale. Seed globose ; 

 albumen deeply ruminate, embryo lateral. 



51. C. latifolius, Roxh* Fl. Ind. iii. 7751 ; leaflets few large scattered 

 or 2-nate elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate 3-9-costate tips setose, margins 

 aculeolate, costas naked on both surfaces, rachis flageltiferous very stout 

 variously armed with scattered spines, sheath densely covered with very 

 short broad whorled spines and a few very large straight flat solitary or 

 whorled ones, spadix decompound, spathes short subcompressed sparsely 



