C. Blumei.) BECCARI THE SPECIES OF CALAMUS.—SUPPLEMENT. 63. 
6-7. em, long, have 7-8 flowers on each side: those of the upper end are shorter, 
4-5 cm. long, and have 5-6 flowers on each side; the flowers are 8 mm. apart in 
each series; secondary spathes tubular, elongate-infundibuliform, slightly tomentcse ; 
spathes glabrescent (perhaps once tomentose)  tubularinfundibuliform, 4 mm. long, 
truncate, produced at one side into a short triangular, bluntish, spreading point; 
involucre cupular, entire or slightly bidentate on the side of the areola of 
the neuter flower; the areola itself is distinctly lunate and sharply edged, 
Fruiting períauth hardened, pedicelliform, terete, 3 mm. broad, and abont as long. 
Fruit globular ovoid, equally rounded at both ends, but surmounted by a 
conspicuous terete very narrow beak, 3 mm. long, 1 mm. thick, and crowned by 
3 small subcircinate stigmas; the fruit without the beak and the perianth is 18-19 
mm. long and 16-17 mm. broad; the pericarp is thin and very fragile ; scales uniformly 
brown, dull, exactly rbomboidal, broader than long, arranged in 18 longitudinal 
series; they have a very narrow, scarious, very finely ciliolate-denticulate margin, 
are very narrowly and faintly grooved along the centre, and are marked towards 
the bluntish and not produced tip with faint concentric rings. Seed ovoid, 13 mm, 
long, 9:5 mm. broad, minutely closely and deeply pitted when it is divested 
of the adherent, once fleshy integument; chalazal fovea punctiform, in the centre of 
the raphal side; embryo on the antiraphal side below the middle; albumen deeply 
ruminate. The female spikelets of the “forma typica" in flower are shorter than those 
of the fully developed and fruit-bearing specimen described above; further these 
spikelets have the spathels more elongate, and more distinctly tubular-infundibuliform. 
SuppL, PLATE 32.—Calamus tomentosus Bece, Ridley’s specimen from Sungei Ujong 
in the Herbarium of the British Museum. 
114. Catamus Biumet Bece. 
Descrietion.—Specimens with fruits of this beautiful, but as yet very imperfectly 
known species, have been collected by Haller in Dutch N.-W. Borneo at Liang-gagang 
(No. 2786 in Buitenzorg Herbarium). These specimens, which differ from the typical 
one only in having larger leaflets, confirm the specific diversity of C. Blumei from 
C. rhomboideus. MHalliers specimens have the sheathed stem 15-18 mm. in diameter. 
The leaf-sheaths are exactly like those of OC. tomentosus, very minutely scabrid, rather 
strongly gibbous-plicate above, thick in texture and almost woody, armed, chiefly on 
their upper part, with short pustule-like spines, which rise as small ascendent pungent 
points from the centre of very broad swollen mammiform bases, The leaves appear 
from the fragments seen by me to be rather large; the petiole, at the base, is almost 
terete, about 1 cm. in diameter; the rachis is armed underneath in its lower portion 
with solitary robust claws; higher up and towards the upper end the claws are smaller 
and ternate; leaflets alternate and distant, exactly like those figured in plate 137 in 
outline, but twice as large (or at times even more), acute or more or less distinctly 
ansate at the base, rigid-papyraceous: the lower ones 30-35 cm. long, and as much 
as 18 cm. broad: those of the apex 26-27 cm. long, 15:5-16 cm. broad: almost. 
glossy on both surfaces, 7-8-costulate, the mid-costa somewhat excentric. Female 
spadix simply decompound, with several partial inflorescences, and terminating in a 
slender, not very elongate, clawed flagellum; primary spathes (only those of the upper 
