Calamus.'] CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 459 



beneath, petiole long stoutly armed, sheath excessively armed with large 

 seriate straight or deflexed spines and scattered short ones. Miq. Palm. 

 Arcliip. Ind. 17, with fig. C. Fernandezii, H. Wendl. in Kerchov. Palm. 

 236. Deemonorops fasciculatus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 330; Walp. 

 Ann. iii. 480, v. 829 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 101. Rotaiig Pajare, Griff, in 

 Cole. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 89 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 95. 



MALACCA, Fernandez, Oxley. DISTBIB. Banca ? 



Stem with the sheaths about 1 in. diam. Leaves 10-11 ft. long exclusive of the 

 long flagellum ; leaflets 1 ft. by f in. ; petiole about 2 ft. ; its lower part armed 

 like the sheath ; sheath with a very oblique mouth. Descript. from Griffith. 



GROUP XII. See p. 438. 



64. C. Blartianus, Becc. mss. C.paniculatus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, 

 iii. 334 (not of^Koxb.). 



PEN AN G ; GaudicTiaud. 



Stem scuudent. Leaflets 4-5 in., equidistant, alternate, lanceolate, tip shortly 

 acuminate and bristly 7-9-eostate, margins and surfaces unarmed, petiole very short, 

 rachis and slender flawellum armed with short spines, sheath with a short obliquely 

 truncate ochrea. Male spadix decompound, lower spathes subterete faintly 2-keeled 

 and rachis armed with short scattered spines, upper unarmed, spikes slender spreading 

 equalling or twice as long as their sputhes. Description from Martius, neither 

 Beccari nor have 1 seen specimens. J.D.H. 



65. C. spatlrulatuSj Becc. mss. ; leaflets very few alternate distant 

 uppermost pair connate at the base elliptic obtuse convex above, 

 costse 5-9 and margins quite smooth, petiole very short and slender, 

 rachis copiously armed with large solitary and 2-3-nate recurved black- 

 tipped spines, sheath flagelliferous elongate cylindric copiously armed with 

 uniform short straight conical-based spines, fern, spadix slender flagel- 

 liferous, spathes slender terete armed with short hooked spines, fruiting 

 calyx pediceliiform short contracted sessile, base broadly truncate, fruit 

 (young) long-beaked very pale. 



MALACCA, Lolb, Hervey. 



Stem scanderit ; very slender. Leaves probably 2-3 ft. long; leaflets 4-7 by 

 2 2| in., coriaceous, shining above, base acute, cross-nervules very many and clos" ; 

 petiole and rachis subterete, flagellum very slender ; sheath as thick as the fore- 

 linger, thickly coriaceous, pale, smooth between the short flattened subseriate spines, 

 flagellum very stout. Fern, spadix long, slender, with distant branches which are 

 aduate to the rachis far above the slender closely appressed spathes; spathule of 

 branches tubercled in. long; spikes 1-1 in., spreading and recurved; spathellnles 

 very short. Fruit (young) in. long, shortly oblong or ellipsoid with a long 

 cylindric beak ; senles very pale straw-cold., faintly channelled. 



Var. rolusta, Becc. ; spadix much larger, very stout. Perak, Geelong- Malacca, 

 King's Collector (7136). 



66. C. insiffnis, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hint. v. 58 ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 69 ; leaflets few distant alternate uppermost pair connate at the 

 base elliptic-oblong or -oblanceolate cuspidately subacute convex 7-9-costate 

 margins thickened recurved and both surfaces quite smooth, rachis slender 

 and terete petiole shortly very sparingly prickly, sheath long slender 

 polished very sparingly armed -with tubercular spines or conical tubercles, 

 Mart. Hist J\ 7 at. Palm. iii. 338 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 488, v. 831 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. iii. 128. 



