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



59. C. palustris, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 62 ; Palms Brit. 

 2nd. 71, 1. 199 ; leaves shortly petioled, leaflets alternate the median approxi- 

 mate in pairs broadly elongate-lanceolate acuminate with bristly tips 

 3-costate and many-nerved, margins not thickened and costas smooth, 

 petiole with 1-2 rows of short very broad fascicled or simple hooked spines 

 with swollen bases, sheath green sparingly armed with short black or. 

 broad hooked spines, spathes tubular obliquely truncate armed with 

 recurved spines, spathels glabrous, fruiting perianth stellate, fruit ell'psoid* 

 oblong, scales obtuse. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 339 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. 

 iii. 131; Walp. Ann. iii. 490, v. 831. C. Intifolius, Kurz (not Roxb.} in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 210, t. 31 A; For. FL ii. 518 (partly). 



TENASSEBIM, Griffith. PEKAK, Scortechini (50 b ). ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz, 

 Man. 



Stem scandent, everywhere glabrous, with the sheaths on 2-3 in. diavn. Leaves 

 8-12 ft. ; leaflets 1-2 ft. by 3-5 in., rather thin, uniformly green. Spadix bi- 

 fariously decompound, elongate, drooping. Fruit about ^ in. long, sciles slightly 

 biconvex, hardly channelled, pale brown with a blackish border. Seed almost semi- 

 convex ; grooved and irregularly wrinkled. (Descript. from Kurz.) 



** Fruiting perianth more or less pedicelliform. 



60. C- unifarius, H. Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. xvii. (1839) 158; var. 

 Pentong, Becc. mss. 



NICOBAR ISLANDS. E. H. Man. 



The plant referred as above consists of a leaf and a portion of a spadix with the 

 fruit wanting. C. unifarius is a Javan plant, described as having rther few 

 inequidistant lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate 7-costate leaflets ; the fruit 

 is subglobose about -fa in. diam., with channelled scales and deeply sinuately 

 furrowed seeds with a basal embryo. I have seen no specimen. J.D.H. 



61. C. neglectus, Becc. mss. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 6399 bis). 



This species is founded in the flagt lliferous apex of a leaf and a portion of a 

 fruiting spadix. The tiagellurn is very slender; the leaflets subequidistant, 4-6 in. 

 by ^ in., membranous, linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, setaceous pointed, with 

 3 slender costss and thickened setose margins ; spathes coriaceous, tubular, obliquely 

 truncate, armed with short scattered straight stout spines; fruiting calyx subpedi- 

 celliform, with broad spreading obtuse lobes ; young frnit | in. long, ellipsoid, scales 

 dull pale yellow with broad scarious brown margins and tips, not channelled, beak 

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



62. C. viridispinus, Becc. mss. ; leaf flagelliferous, leaflets in very 

 distant fascicles variously grouped ensit'orm finely acuminate, costaa 3 

 strong sparingly setose above naked beneath, rachis trigonous smooth with 

 few solitary very short hooked spines on the lateral angles, spadix elon- 

 gate filiform, fern, spikes elongate with -alternate remote horizontal flowers, 

 young fruit oblong strongly beaked, fruiting calyx pedicelliform, petals 

 small, albumen solid. 



PESAK, Scortechini (316*>) ; at Larut, alt. 3500-4000 ft. (Herb. Calcutt. 4127). 

 Stem 20-25 ft. Leaves bright green; leaflets 30 by nearly 1 in. 1 have seen 

 only a fragment of a leaf, from Larut, and a spike of very young fruit. J.D.H. 



63. C. Oxleyanus, Teysm. & Binnend. Cat. PL Hort. Bogor. 1886, 

 75 (name only) erect, leaflets very many in subopposite distant fascicles 

 linear-lanceolate acuminate, tip bristly, costas 5 setose above naked 



