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



spinons mouth oblique, spathels short, male spikes densely imbricate, fruiting 

 calyx sessile, pedicelliform broadly campanulate lobes short, fruit sub- 

 globose pale. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 339, t. 160, f. 5 : Griff, in Calc. 

 Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 60; Palms Brit. Ind. 68, t 198 (excl. cit. Hort. 

 Malab.) ; JKurz in Journ. As. Soc. Peng, xliii. ii. 210 (excl. t. 31 A) ; For. 

 Fl. ii. 518 (partim). C. macracanthus et inermis, T. Anders, in Journ: 

 Linn. Soc. xi. 10, 11 ; PC. humilis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 773. 



From the SIEKITVI HIMALAYA and ASSAM, ascending to 2000 ft., to TENASSEKIM. 



Stem stout, 1-2 ft., as thick as the thumb. Leaves with the flagellum 10-15 ft. j 

 leaflets 1-2 ft. by 1-2^ in., upper sometimes flabellately clustered or connate at the 

 base ; cross nervules very many and close j petiole short or long, sometimes bearing 

 the leaflets only far up the flagellum ; base sometimes ^ in. broad, smooth, biconvex, 

 spines very various always scattered. Spadix very -large ; spathes and branches 

 usually armed with scattered very short broad spines. Fruit (not quite ripe) nearly 

 1 in. long, rather narrower, pale dull yellow ; scales convex, deeply channelled, 

 shining, margin very narrowly scarious. C. humilis, Roxb. , is probably founded on 

 a very young plant of C. latifolius with undeveloped flagella. 



52. C. Doriaei, Becc. mss. 



BUEMA ; on Mt. Karin, L. Fea. 



Only a portion of a spadix with fruit known. It appears to be nearly allied 

 to C. latifolius, from which it is distinguished by the elongate fruit |-1 by in. 

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



53. C. simplex, Becc. mss. ; leaves flagelliferous, leaflets very few 

 large elliptic 3-6-costate, spadix supra-axillary quite simple elongate not 

 flagelliferous bearing at every primary spathe a solitary simple spikelet or 

 at most two from the lowest spathe, fruiting calyx callous shortly pedi- 

 celliform, fruit rather large broadly ovoid, seed globose, albumen deeply 

 ruminate, embryo subbasilar. 



PEKAK ; on Gunong Tarnbang Batak., Scortecnini (432). 



Differs from all other known species in the few divisions of the spadix. I have 

 seen no specimen. J.D.R. 



54 C. caesius, Blume Rumph. iii. 57 ; leaves subsessile flagelliferous, 

 leaflets very inequidistant in distant fascicles of 5-7 oblanceolate cuspi- 

 dately acuminate glaucous or farinose beneath acutely 4-costate above and 

 setulose, margins setulose acute, rachis armed with solitary and sub- 

 whorled spines, sheath not flagelliferous very gibbous above fugaciously 

 scurfy armed with scattered long horizontal spines with broad callous bases 

 and small acute tubercles. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 340 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 

 490, y. 832 ; Miq. Anal. Bot, Ind. i. 6 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 129 ; Palm. 

 Ar chip. Ind. 28. C. glaucescens, Blume, I.e. 65; Mart. I.e. 339; Walp. 

 II. cc. 489, 830 ; Miq. II. cc. 



PERAK, ScortecUni. DISTEIB. Borneo. 



A lofty climber. Leaves 2-3 ft. ; leaflets 12-14 by 2-2 in. Fruit unknown. 



Appears to be allied to C. melanoloma of Java. I have seen no specimen. 

 J.D.H. 



55. C. axillaris, Becc. mss.\ leaves shortly petioled, leaflets numerous 

 very inequidistant above oblanceolately ensiform, margins smooth, rachis 

 unarmed below armed above with scattered simple and ternate claws, 

 spadix not flagelliferous elongate with several erect partial inflorescences, 

 spathes 1st and 2nd fugaciously scurfy unarmed or the lower scarcely armed, 



