19 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [Q, spinulineruis. 
largest 6-7 cm. long with 20-95 flowers on each side: the upper ones gradually 
but not much smaller; spathels have a very short tubular part and suddenly expand 
into a bracteiform triangular acute deflexed striately veined apex; involucrophorum 
spread under and hidden by the involucre; the latter almost explanate, acutely 3— 
dentate ; areola of the neuter flower depressed, Female flowers 2*5 mm. long, inserted 
at about an angle of 45°; the calyx is shortly tubular, has a broad callous base and 
slightly narrows above, terminating in 3 deltoid, acute, strongly striately veined 
teeth ; the corolla is very slightly longer than the calyx. and has its divisions ovate- 
lanceolate acute and smooth outside; the ovary is oblong; the stigmas are relatively 
Jarge and recurved. In dry specimens the calyx has the base callous and 
light-coloured, and the tube and teeth quite black and strongly striately veined ; 
the divisions of the corolla are smooth and of a straw colour. Fruit exactly 
spherical, 8 mm. in diameter, very suddenly surmounted by a slender but 
relatively long and acute mucro. Scales few and relatively large, arranged in 
12 longitudinal series; there are only 5-6 well conformed in each series, rhom 
boidal, brcader than long, obsoletely grooved along the centre, of a general greenish 
straw colour, narrowly edged with red brown; the apex is bluntish but slightly 
produced, the margins obsoletely erose. Seed globular, 6 mm. in diameter, tubercled 
and deeply pitted all round; albumen nepo ruminated. 
HanrrAT.—Colleeted by Teiysmann in Dutch Borneo at aleisov. In the Buitenzorg 
Herbarium without number. 
OnsERVATIONS.— Of this I have seen the female spadix only, in flower and fruit, 
but no leaves, There is therefore the chance that C. sphaeruliferus may ;have already 
received a name as a sterile plant, and I am inclined to think that this may 
prove to be ©.  spinulinervis hereafter described. As it is, C. spheruliferus is 
distinguishable from the other described species by its reproduetive organs; by its 
extremely elongate femaie spadices, with only 2-3 very distant partial inflorescences ; 
by the tubular and very long spathes, expanded above into an ear-like limb, fringed 
with very peculiar spine-like paleole; by the small, spherical, acutely beaked fruit 
with few but relatively large scales, and by the globular, tubercled, and pitted 
seed which has a deeply ruminated albumen. In the very small spherical fruits 
it approaches (. nematospadir Becc.; it somewhat resembles also C. Juridus, but the 
latter has an ovoid fruit, and in no case is the apex of.the primary spathes 
furnished with spine-like paleolz. 
SuPPL. Puare  5.—OCa3lamus sphæruliferas Bece, Fruiting spadix. The type 
specimen in Buitenzorg Herbarium. 
29c. CALAMUS sPINULINERVIS Becc. n. sp. 
Descriprion.—Scandent, very slender. Sheathed stem ,about 1 cm, in diameter. 
Leufsheaths (cirriferous) cylindrical, elongate, slightly gibbous above, densely beset 
with innumerable very small, unequal, triangular, thickish spines, flat underneath ang 
pointing upwards, of which the largest are 2-3 mm, long and l mm. broad at the 
vase and a still greater number are much smaller, but of the same description, 
between the spines the surface, in the newly exposed leaf-sheaths, is mottled, being 
glabrous where the spines remain appressed against it during the prefoliation and 
