38 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C. pygmaeus. 
leaflets on each side, of which the lowest are 16-17 cm. long, and 8 mm. broad, 
very spreading or almost horizontal; otherwise this leaf corresponds in every respect 
to those of the type (Versteeg No. 1701). 
Supet, PrarE 19.—Calamus pilosissimus Bece, Upper end of a plant with a 
male spadix; another leaf with a male spadix attached to its leaf-sheath. From 
Versteeg No. 1701 in the Herbarium at Utrecht. 
Supp. PraTz 20.—Calamus  pilosissimus Becc. Spadix bearing fruits repre- 
senting the entire von Rómer's specimen No. 1146 in the Herbarium at Utrecht. 
69. CALAMUS MYRIACANTHUS Becc. 
This is another of the new species of Calamus already described by me in 
this volume which has been found again in Sarawak. I have seen a specimen 
with a male spadix collected, apparently by Hewi't, at Siul (Seoul) in September 
1905, and forwarded from the Sarawak Museum to the Herbarium at Kew. 
The male spadiz is ultradecompound, slender but not flagelliform, composed of 
several partial inflorescences and ending in a very slender tail-like unarmed appen- 
dage; the partial inflorescences are considerably apart, elongate, and slender, spreading 
and arched, and carry compound spikelets in their lower part, and simple spikelets 
towards the apex; the lowest primary spathe is strongly flattened, sharply two- 
edged, closely sheathing and ends in a narrow auriculiform acuminate limb ; 
secondary spathes tubular, more or less rusty furfuraceous, unarmed; secondary 
spikelets very short. Mule flowers terete, acute, 5 mm. long and 13 mm. broad . 
the calyx tubular, 3-toothed, of hard texture, callous at its base. not or very 
obsoletely striately veined ; the corolla one and-a-half time longer than the calyx, its 
divisions linear, acute, polished externally; the lowest primary or compound 
spikelets are 5-9 cm. long, and carry numerous (10-14 on each side) secondary 
simple very short spikelets, of which the lower, largest, are 4-6 cm. long and 
carry only 4-5 flowers on each side; upper spikelets gradually smaller, and with 
fewer flowers; spathes of the compound spikelets infundibuliform, rusty puberulous- 
 furfuraceous; spathels concave, bracteiform, acute, strongly striately veined; involucre 
slightly concave, strongly striately veined, considerably broader than high, and as if 
formed by two triangular acuminate bracts united by their bases, 
70, Carawus PYGMAEUs Bece. 
OssERvATIONS.— 1t has been collected again in Borneo on Mount M attang by 
Ridley (No. 12397) and by Hewitt (Herb. Kew.) and seems a rather common 
plant. All these specimens are more robust than the type figured in plate 86, 
have a stem 15-20 em. long and 15 mm. in diameter, when covered by the 
sheaths; the leaves are also larger, 70-90 cm. long, have the rachis armed 
on the back in its lower part with small solitary claws, and smooth from 
the middle upwards or only near the apex; there are 25 leaflets on each side, of 
which the largest are 20-22 cm. long, 13-14 mm. broad. In Hewitt’s specimens 
the short sheathed stem is 2 cm. in diameter; the leaf-sheaths are armed with small, 
laminar, triangular, deflexed, furfuraceous spines; one leaf is 75 em. long and the 
leaflets as above described; the male spadix is flagelliform like the female, its 
spikelets are short, 10-15 mm. long, and have only 3-4 rathér distant flowers on 
