C. mollis.) BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF CALAMUS.—SUPPLEMENT. 21 
have 4-5 distichous flowers on each side, while those near the upper end are very 
short and have only 3-1 flowers in all; spathels obliquely infundibuliform, nearly 
smooth, fugaciously rusty-furfuraceous; involucrophorum subcupular, laterally attached to 
and almost excavate within the base of the spathel above its own; the involucre is 
asymmetrically cupular and rather deep; it carries laterally the areola of the neuter 
flower, very conspicuous, Callous, suborbieular, concave and at times forming also a 
shallow cupula, slightly smaller than that of the female flower. Fruiting perianth 
not pedicellitorm; the calyx split into 3 parts down to the base; the segments of 
the corolla lanceolate, acute, slightly longer than the calyx. Fruit small, ovoid, 
11 mw, long, 7 mm. broad, contracted at the apex into a conspicuous conical beak ; 
scales subsquarrose, arranged in 21 longitudinal series, flattish and not grooved along 
the centre, yellowish brown, tinged of dark-red towards the apex which is rather 
acute and often toothed. 
OsseRVATIONS.—The spadix of ©. schistoacanthus is very similar to that of €, 
leptospaziz, but the spikelets of the first are inserted outside (not inside) the mouth 
of their respective spathes, I do not know to which of the known species it 
may be said really to be related ; perhaps it approaches C. peeudo-tenuis and could be 
placed near that species. 
SUPPL. Prare 12.—Calamus  sehistoacanthus Bi, Sheathed stem; an entire leaf 
and an entire female spadix in flower, portion of a fruiting spadix. From Hallier’s 
No. 1282 in Buitenzorg Herbarium. 
44. CALAMUS VIMINALIS Willd. var. rasctcuLatus!Becc. Add :—Prain in Records Bot. 
Surv. Ind. iii, 294 (1905) “The Vegetation of the districts of Hughli-Howrah 
and the 21.Pergunnahs" where it is given the locality: ** Village shrubberies, general.” 
Native name, “ Bara bet." 
44. CALAMUS vIMINALIS Wild. var. PINANGIANUS Becc. 
Ridley mentions (Mat. Fl. Mal. Penin, ii, 213) Wallich's No, 8611 (of which I 
have made the variety pinangianus) and writes of it: “his has never been seen 
again in the peninsula, and it is an Indian species ; the locality is probably 
erroneous.” We may however also suppose that the plant has been destroyed 
in Penang, as the presence of this plant in Penang could not be considered an 
extraordinary fact, considering that ©. viminalis with its numerous varieties is 
not a localized Indian plant, but a rather widely diffused species in Southern Asia 
and Java, 
46. OCaLAMUS concinnus Mart. Add :—C. multirameus Ridley, Mat. Fl. Mal. Penins. 
iij 202 (only as to the fruit). 
It has been found again by Ridley at Dinding in Perak (No. 8405 parily) 
as the fruit attributed by Ridley to €. multirameus really belongs to C. concinnus. See 
observations to C. Guruba. : 
47. Carawus Motus Blanco. Add:—Bece. in Webbia di. U. Martelli i, 345 and 
in Philip. Journ. Sc. iii, 342; C. B. Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sc., vi, 
117. 
