40 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. ([(. cambojensis- 
OsscRvATIONS.— The male flowers and the fruits do not differ from those of 
C. tenuis, of which C, horrens is, apparently, only a geographical form and to 
which it must be, I think, specifically reduced. 
78. Catamus GopErROYr Bece. Add: —Becc. in Webbia di U. Mart. iii, (1910) 242, 
and in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (1911), 13. 
This species described from very incomplete specimens collected in 1879 by 
Godejroy-Leboeuf was previously gathered by Dr, Thore! at Hong Kay in Ooéhin- 
China, during the Mekong expedition 1866-68 according to some specimens with 
female spadices in flower preserved in the Paris Herbarium. These specimens are 
only more slender than the type figured in plate 96. The sheathed stem is 8-9 mm. 
in diameter. The leaves are 40-45 cm, long, and as in the type have no petiole, and. 
very inequidistant leaflets; the latter are frequently furnished with the characteristic 
spinules on the upper surface near the base of the mid-costa; the spadix is also 
shorter than in the type specimen; the female flowers are 3 mm. long, have a flat 
callous base and are conical acute, at times more or less angular; the calyx is very 
briefly 3-toothed; the corolla very slightly longer than the calyx; the neuter 
flowers are rather conspicuous, slender, linear, 3-5 mm. long, have the calyx acutely 
3-toothed and the corolla about twice as long as the calyx. C. Godefroyi seems 
more closely related to C. tenuis than to C. Rotan), from which it is at once distin- 
guished by its leaves having very inequidistant leafle:s, 
79. Cacamus Rorane Linn. Add :—Cooke Fi. Bom.. ii, 807, 
Rotang Linnaei Bail. Hist. des Pl. xiii, 526. IU 
«Sometimes grown in gardens, but not indigenous in the Bombay Presidency 
When young it is a very graceful plant with pinnate leaves 1-2 ft, long and with 
black spines $ in. long on the stem and leaf sheaths, but when it attains a height 
of 5-6 feet and develops its whip-like flagella armed with numerous sharp recurved 
thorns it is generally considered time to cut it down.” Cooke l. c. 
82. CALAMUS TONKINENSIS Becc. Add:—Bece. in Webbia di U. Mart. iii, (1910) 
242, and in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (1911), 148. 1 
OBSERVATIONS.—This species seems more closely related to C. tenuis than to C 
siminalis (fasciculatus) with which I had compared it. 
83. CaraMus DELESSERTIANUS Becc. 
Os«rrvarions.—This species apparently must be suppressed, as it seems to me now 
that the specimens with female flowers represented in plate 101, upon which the 
species was established, represent only parts of a luxuriant form of C. tenuis Roxb. 
35. Catamus saLIcFOLIUSs Becc. Add: - Bece. in Webbia di U. ‘Mart. iii, (1910), — 
242 and in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (19113, 160. As 
86a, Carawus camposensts Becc. in Webbia di U. Mart. “iii, 932, and in Bull 
Mus. Hist. Nat. (1911), 160. 
