Calamus.] OLXTII. PALME/E. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 461 



PEEAK ; Scortechini. 



Apparently scaudent, lenf-she.iths 2-3 in. dlara. Leaves 8-10 ft. long; petiole 

 3 ft. ; leaflets 2 ft. by 1^-2 iu. Fruit above an inch long, suddenly contracted 

 into a conical point; scales shining, straw-cold. Very near C. ornatus, but more 

 robust, and more densely armed; abundantly distinct in the non-flagelliferous 

 spadix, longer branches, and armed secondary spathes. I have seen no specimen. 

 J.D.H. 



70. C. scipionum, Lour. Fl. Cochinck. i. 210 ; leaves not flagelli- 

 ferous, leaflets numerous firm equidistant upper gradually smaller elongate- 

 lanceolate or subensiform aculeolate tips bristly, costae 5-7 naked on both 

 surfaces or sparsely aculeolate beneath, margins nearly smooth, upper- 

 most pair connate at the base, rachis and petiole armed with very stout 

 conico-subulate scattered recurved spines, spadices very long rlagelliferous, 

 lower spathes very long tubular unarmed or their keels armed, fruiting 

 calyx very small pedicelliform, fruit small ovoid or globose abruptly 

 mammillate brown. Lam. JEncycl. vi. 304 (non Illustr. & excl. syn.} ; Mart. 

 Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 342; Kunth Enum. iii. 206; Walp. Ann. iii. 342; 

 v. 832 ; Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 35 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 43 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 138. C. micranthus, Blume Humph, iii. 53 

 (leaf only'}, i. 157 (excl. spadix & anal. fl.). Ching, Griff. I.e. c.c. 37 and 

 46. 



MALACCA, Griffith. PERAK, Scortecliini (501 b ) ; at Gunong-Malacca, King's 

 Collector (7171) DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Stem 40-60 ft., sheath 2-3 iu. diam. Leaves 4-5 ft. ; flagellum 10-12 ft. ; larger 

 leaflets 18-20 by l|-2 in., rather coriaceous, tips not produced ; rachis as thick as the 

 little finger, smooth except from the scattered spines, obtusely trigonous. Male spadix . 

 20 ft.; fern, about 10 ft. long ; lower spathe compressed, upper cyliudric ; spathels 1 in., 

 tubular, truncate, smooth, unarmed, or with a few conical tubercles ; branches of 

 fern, spadix long; spikes 2-4 in., rather distant, spreading and recurved, stout.; 

 spathellules and bracts very short imbricate ; fern. fl. sessile. Fruiting calyx small, 

 broadly urceolate, base truncate intruded, mouth much contracted, lobes very 

 short; petals rather longer, broadly ovate. Fruit (young) -i in. long, scales brown 

 shir ing tumid hardy channelled, with broad pale scarious margins. Seed (young) 

 sub-obovoid, alveolate, embryo basilar. 



GROUP XIII. See p. 438. 



71. C. conirostris, Becc. mss. ; leaf long-petioled shortly flagelli- 

 ferous, leaflets numerous equidistant narrowly ensiform tips slender 

 strongly set u lose, costse 3 more or less setulose above the median only 

 beneath, rachis and flagellum armed with stout recurved 3-5-fid 

 claws, petiole very stout, margins densely armed with subsolitary stout 

 straight erect and spreading spines, sheath armed with very long and 

 slender spines, spathes copiously armed with subseriate straight spines, 

 fern, spadix very stout, spathels densely spinous, spikes very short and 

 stout, bracts large densely imbricate cupular, fl. large, fruit narrowly 

 ovoid narrowed into a stout beak black. 



PERAK ; at Goping, alt. 500-1000 ft., King's Collector (4593, 5808). 



Stem 15-20 ft., 1-li in. diam. Leaves 6-8 ft. glossy; leaflets 10-18 ft. by 

 f-liu.; upper smaller, membranous; petiole as thick as the middle finger, concave- 

 convex, back sparsely shortly armed ; upper spines of sheath 4 in. long, acicular. 

 Fruit 1^ in. long by -f in. diam., very smooth ; scales flat, brown-black, quite smooth 

 and polished, closely imbricating, the basal concealed part yellow ; fruiting calyx in. 

 diam., cupular, not pedicelliform ; lobes large broad appressed ; petals very small. 

 Seed ovoid, rough ; albumen cancellate throughout. 



