C. Hewittianus. } BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF CALAMUS.—SUPPLEMENT. 45 
SUPPL. Prarr 23.— Calamus poensis Bece. Upper end ofa plant with an entire 
male spadix; terminal portion of a leaf, The type specimen, Foxworthy No. 396, 
in the Herbarium at Manila. 
88. Carawmus Frawus Becc. 
OssERVvATIONS.— This species was known only from Sig. Fea’s specimens, but 
I have now had the opportunity of examining other specimens with mature fruits, 
sent to me by Mr. I. B. Burkill which were collected in 1903 at '*Thangyan, in 
Tenasserim, Burma (Herb. Reporter on Economie Products to the Government of India, 
No. 21007). The fruits are siightly larger than those already described, regularly 
ovoid, 22-23 mm. long (including the perianth) and 17 mm. broad; the 
scales are peculiar, being pulverulent and dull in their posticous part and 
brown alutaceous in the remainder. Seed l5 mm. long, 9:5-10 mm. broad, 7-8 mm. 
thick, 
89, CALAMUS BACULARIS Bece. 
OsnskRVATIONS.—Í have seen another specimen of this species in the Herbarium at Kew 
coming from the Sarawak Museum and labelled: Sk. Bongsitu 800 ft. Coll. G. D. H. 
As this specimen bears some fruits stil attached to the spikelets, 1 am able to 
confirm entirely what I have said about them in my description on page 289. 
89a. Caramus Hewrrrianus Bece, sp. n. 
DzscRiPTION.— Apparently not scandent. Sheathed stem 2 cm. in diameter. Leaf- 
sheaths thickish, woody, passing gradually into the petiole, open longitudinally on the 
ventral side, armed with more or less regularly seriate, rather large (2 em. long), 
elongate-triangular, laminar, cinnamon-brown spines, which leave deeply stamped their 
outline on the surface of the sheaths above them. Ocrea liguliform, short, fringed 
with rigid bristles. Leaves not cirriferous, large, about 2 m. long on the whole, 
the petiolar part alone is 45 cm. long, 10-11 mm. broad, robust and rigid, slightly 
coneave and smooth on the upper surface, on the lower surface convex and 
armed along the centre with a line of solitery robust claws, the margins obtuse, 
very powerfully armed near the base with long (3-4 cm.) and robust, straight, hori- 
zontal spines; on the intermediate portion the spines are shorter, thicker, and 
slightly deflexed and on the upper part are gradually transformed into robust claws; 
the rachis on its upper surface has a smooth salient angle and more or less concave 
side-faces; on the lower surface it is armed on each side and along the centre 
with solitary robust claws, which. occasionally become more or less confluent upwards; 
the rachis andj petioles are sprinkled with small appressed rusty scales; leaflets. not 
numerous (18 in all in one leaf}, very inequidistant and considerably spaced, rigid 
papyraceous, broadly lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptical or at times slightly broader above 
the middle, somewhat concave-conyex and plicate, 7—9-costulate, tapering lower down to 
a rather acute base, the apex acute, bristly; all nerves and the margins quite 
smooth; transverse veinlets very approximate and fine; the intermediate leaflets 
are the largest, 85 cm. long, 7 cm. broad: the upper gradually smaller: the two of 
the apex the smallest, free at the base, 20 cm. long, 3 em. broad: the lowest 25- 
30 cm. long, 3-4 cm. broad. Male spadiz partially twice branched, elongate (1'3 m. 
long in one specimen), slender, unarmed or with a few rudimentary spines on 
