48 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA.  ((. paspalanthus. 
an easily deciduous, woolly down. These parts undoubtedly belong to 0. perakensis, 
but with them is glued a spadix with young fruits, which most certainly belongs 
to 2. Guruba, 
In conclusion C. lanatus was founded on the leaves and male spadices of C, 
perakensis and the fruits of C, Guruba. 
91. CaLaMUus RAMOSISSIMUS Bece. Add:—Ridley Mat. Fl. Mal. Penins, ii, 201. 
For this plant Ridley adds the following localities, besides those mentioned by 
me:—Pahang: Pahang River at Kwala Tenok (Ridley). Perak: Gunong Keledang: 
Bujong Malacca (Ridley No. 9809); Gopin (King’s Coll, 545). Negri Sembilan; 
Gunong Angsi (Aidley); Kedah, Gunong Terai (Ridley). 
92. CALAMUS PASPALANTHUS Becc. 
OBSERVATIONS.—Specimens with male and female spadices have been collected again 
by Ridley in Sarawak at Tambusan (No, 12403). They correspond exactly to those 
already described by me, and have the spathels and the involucre of the male 
spikelets strongly striately veined, and the spathels aculeolate in the female. spadix, 
Another specimen collected also in Sarawak at Quop by Hewitt (Herb. Kew.) has a 
male spadix, indistinguishable from that figured in plate 111, but the spathels and 
the involucre are not so strongly striately veined as in the preceding. 
CALAMUS PASPALANTHUS var. PENINSULARIS Becc. Add: 6. paspalanthus Ridle 
Mat. Fl. Mal. Pen. ii, 200; and (perhaps) C. intumescens ( Beco.) Ridley, l.c. em 
intunescens). 
OssERVATIONS.—Ridley considers C. intumescens as a distinct Species from Q. 
paspalanthus. But the typical C. paspalanthus is a Bornean plant, and the Malayan 
specimens referred by Ridley to it are the same upon which I have based the var. 
peninsularis. Thé" original Calamus (Daemonorops? Becc.) intumescens was founded on 
some sterile specimens collected by Scortechini in the State of Perak, of which one 
is reproduced in plate 113 (vol. XI), and which I have supposed to represent a 
young state of C. paspalanthus var. peuinsularis, In any case the differences between 
the two species ‘paspalanthus and intumescens) as undersjood by Ridley, must be very 
trifling, as he quotes for both the same number 11209 from Batu Pahat. 
CALAMUS PASPALANTHUS var. PTEROSPERMUS Bece. in Bof. Zahrb, xlviii (1912) 91. 
DzscniPrIoN.— The vegetative. organs differ very slightly from those of the 
“forma typica." The sheathed stem is 20-22 mm. in diameter; the leaf sheaths 
are armed with more numerous and more slender spines than in the type, but as 
in it have the peculiar swelling at the base of the petiole; the  leaf-sheath fla- 
gella are extraordinarily long and slender; the leaves are 1'4 m. long in the 
pinniferous part; the petiole is 30-35 em. long; the rachis is covered with the 
brown-purplish hairiness peculiar to the type; the leaflets are also as in the type 
but slightly broader (10-12 mm. broad, 25-28 em. long) Male spadiz, . . . . Female 
spadiz exactly as in the typical plant of C. paspalanthus from Sarawak, only the 
spikelets are slightly more slender and the secondary spathes are more conspicuously 
covered with small prickles; the spathels are unarmed. Female flowers small, ovoid, 
