Calamus.] CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 457 



spikelets short scorpioid, 3rd spathe infundibular, limb open truncate 

 margin fimbriate, spathels and spathellules striate margins ciliate, flowers 

 distichous, calyx finely striate. 



PERAK, Scortechini. 



Described from a single specimen which I have not seen. The fruit, and hence 

 the position of the species, is unknown. J.D.H. 



66. C. pallidulus, Becc. mss. ; leaves subsessile, leaflets inequidistant 

 hardly fascicled ensiform acuminate, costaa 3 unarmed on both surfaces, 

 margins sparsely spinulose, rachis strongly armed with uniform short 

 black-tipped 3- fid claws, sheath with scattered short straight spines, spathes 

 armed with short stout scattered simple conical spines, fruit spherical 

 shortly beaked pale, seed deeply pitted, albumen ruminate. 



PERAK; at Thaiping, -TV-ray (2392, 3017). 



Leaflets 8-10 in. The upper spathes are naked with much dilated obliquely 

 truncate mouths. The fern, spikes 2-2^ in., "strongly recurved; spathels strongly 

 muricate. Fruit f in. diaui., very pale; scales obscurely channelled, margins 

 hardly scarious, beak cylmdric ; fruiting calyx pedicellitbrm. Described from two 

 leaves, a small portion of a sheath, a fragment of a spadix with ripe fruit. 



GKOUP XI. See p. 438. 



* Fruiting perianth not pedicelliform. 



57. C. ovoideus, Thw. ex Trimen in Journ Bot. 1885, 269 ; leaves 

 petioled, leaflets equidistant broadly linear alternate 3-costate tip bristly, 

 margin thickened smooth, costae setose beneath, rachis fugaciously scurfy, 

 margins prickly back rounded with solitary hooked spiuet*, sheath densely 

 armed with rings of flat de flexed often lacerate black spines, lower spathes 

 armed with short broad flat reflexed spines, fruiting spadix with very 

 stout recurved spikelets, fruiting perianth stellate, fruit obovoid strongly- 

 beaked. 



CEYLON; Saffragam district, Thivaites (CP. 3925). 



Stem stout, scaadent. Leaves 14 ft. and more including 1 the flagellum ; leaflets 

 1014 by f-1 in., bright green above, duller beneath. Fruit -f in. long, strongly 

 beaked, scales pale greyish yellow, strongly channelled, narrowly margined with 

 orange-brown. Described from Triinen 1. c. 



58. C. andamanicus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 211, 

 t. xxvii. A, xxviii. ; For. Fl. ii. 519 ; leaflets alternate equidistant linear 

 subulate-acuminate 3-costate, margins thickened and costse setose, petiole 

 and rachis armed with stout recurved spines, petiole with blackish tuberous- 

 based ones mixed with long black spines, sheath red brown covered with 

 seriate whorls of capillary black and broad flat black spines, spadix decom- 

 pound nodding, spathes subcompressed armed with strong reflexed solitary 

 and teruate spines, partial unarmed, trait elliptic-ovoid acuminate, scales 

 with long fimbriate tips. 



ANDAMAN and NICOBAR ISLANDS, Kurz, Man. 



Stem lofty, scandent, as thick as the arm (with the sheaths on). Leaflets 2-2% ft. 

 by 1 in. broad. Fruit distichous, uniformly brown, about % in. long; scales rhom- 

 boid, greenish, bordered with chesnut-brown, rather flat, not furrowed, tips pro- 

 longed into a lanceolate pale brown opaque acute ciliolate membranous appendage, 

 longer than the scale itself. Seed semiconvex, grooved j albumen equable. (The 

 above from Kurz.) 



