Q. Hookerianus. | BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF CALAMUS.—SUPPLEMENT, oT 
triangular point; the  branchlets are spreading, arched, inserted inside but near the 
mouth of their respective spathes, and have 7-10 spikelets on each side; the spike- 
lets of the branchlets are short, 12-20 mm. long, and have 6-12 flowers on each 
side, the others are up to 5-6 cm. long and have a proportionate number of 
flowers; spathels very closely packed, very shallowly asymmetrically infundibuliform, 
striately veined, entire, produced at one side into a broadly triangular point, which 
subtends its flower and after the fall of the latter protrudes beyond the involucre; 
the involucre dimidiately cupular, acutely bidentate, two-keeled and lunately exeavate 
on the side next to the axis. Male flowers ovate. 
53. CALAMUS PSEUDO-TENUIS Bece. Add :—Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ii, 806. 
To the localities add: Kanara, common on the Gháts of N. Kanara, Talbot ex 
Cooke. 1. c. 
94. CaLaAMUS Hooxerranus Becc. 
A specimen of this little known palm, has been collected by Mr. A. Meebold 
in the forests of Kandy in Ceylon, at about 600 m. elevation (No. 3288 in the 
Breslau Herbarium). The true habitat of C. Hookerianus had remained so far some- 
what uncertain, but with the discovery of this plant in Ceylon, there is no 
ground to doubt the locality of Courtalum assigned to the type specimens of it, 
as many species of plants are inhabitants of Ceylon and at the same time of the 
southern part of India. 
In the Philippine Journal of Science (Botany? v, (1909), 621, I referred to 
C. Hookerianus a plant which now I consider to be new species hereafter to be 
described under the name of C. fibspadia. 
Probably ©. Hookerianus has been confused by Ceylon botanists with C. 
delicatulus Thw., which it somewhat resembles in its slender stems, and in its 
very long spadices. 
Meebold's specimen consists of a portion of a spadix with very young fruits, 
and of a leaf, apparently a radical one, having its sheath spread open and not 
tubular. The eaf on the whole is about 65 cm. long. The Jeaf-sheath is armed 
with long, straight, horizontal, very slender, needle-like spines ; the petiole and 
the rachis in its lower portion are armed with a similar kind of spines, of which 
some are as much as 7 cm. long; leaflets numerous and equidistant, smaller than 
those of the type specimen, bristly on 3 nerves on the upper surface and quite 
smooth on the lower. The spadiz (female) is said to be 3 m. long (Meebold); the 
axial portions between two partial inflorescences are very long and powerfully armed 
with more or less aggregated claws exactly as in the type specimen; one of the in- 
florescences, apparently of the upper part of the spadix, is 60 em. long ; some of 
the spikelets are 16 cm, long, and carry up to 20 flowers on each side ; secondary 
spathes almost smooth or with a straggling, very small claw here and there. 
Flowers inserted at an angle of about 45° and about 8 mm. apart on each side; 
perianth slightly callous at its base. 
The Ceylon plant differs but very slightly from that of the continent ; the 
spadix seems slightly more delicate, the spikelets slightly more slender, and at 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. Catcurra Vor. XI. 
