66 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [ C. megaphyllus. 
about as long as broad, narrowly grooved along the centre especially in the posticous 
part, straw coloured with a narrow black edge all round, the point obtuse or very 
slightly produced, and with the margins very densely fringed with very minute black 
cilia. The fruit apparently contains normally 2 seeds which are enveloped by an 
abundant integument, probably once fleshy. When freed from the integument the 
seeds appear flattened, very irregular and angular, 8-10 mm. long, 8°5-4 mm. 
broad, with a polished mahogany-red surface; the chalazal fovea is very small and 
punctiform; albumen bony, homogeneous; embryo basal. 
HaBrrAT.—N. E. Celebes: Prov. of Minahassa near Kajuwatu, discovered by 
S. H. Koorders, 27th Feb. 1895. No. 1840008. Vernacular name: ‘ Pondos-ajamen.” 
OssERVATIONS.— I have seen a small fragment of a leaf with a few leaflets 
only, and also a partial inflorescence with fruits. It appears, however, to be a 
well characterized species, not closely related to any one of those known to 
me, that belong to the group having scorpioid inflorescences, and flowers borne on a 
pedicelliform involucrophorum; it is also distinguishable by its long and narrow 
distinctly 3-eostulate ensiform leaflets; by the axis of the spadix being very powerfully 
armed with black-tipped claws; by the arched scorpioid partial inflorescences 
having smooth spathels; by the arched rigid spikelets with tubular cylindrical 
spathels, and remote  pedicellate flowers and fruits; by the fruits being spherical 
containing two seeds and having scales densely fringed with short black hairs, and 
by the seeds being flattened, angular, not ruminate, and with a basal embryo, 
SuPPL. PLATE 34.—Calamus  Koordersianus Becc. Portion of a leaf; a partial 
inflorescence with mature fruits, The entire type specimen in the Buitenzorg 
Herbarium. 
119, Catamus Cuminctanus Becc. Add:—Becc. in Webbia di, U. Martelli, 
i, 346, : 
119a, CALAMUS MEGAPHYLLUS Bece, n. sp. 
DescripTion.—Not high scandent.  Sheathed stem about 3°5 cm. in diameter. Leaf.. 
sheaths thick, woody, obliquely truncate and smooth at the mouth, and having a very 
short, hard, glabrous ligula, conspicuously gibbous above, dull, obsoletely-striate, and 
covered with very small, confluent, thin scales which form an evanescent grayish 
coating, otherwise quite smooth or sometimes with a few small spines on the upper 
part of their ventral side. Leaves 1 m. long or thereabout in the pinniferous — 
part, and terminating in a cirrus as long or even longer; petiolar part 15 mm. 
broad, almost obsolete, the leaflets extending very nearly to the mouth of the leaf- 
sheaths; the rachis on the upper surface is convex from the base up to about the 
middle, and armed with short straight prickles on the remainder: it is bifaced with 
a smooth not very sharp salient angle; on the under surface the rachis is’ almost 
flat in its lower part and armed on the edges with very small brown claws and 
with a line of similar small claws along the centre; the claws however become 
stronger higher up, and finally near the end are geminate and ternate ; the cirrus is 
peculiarly and densely armed all over its lower surface with very approximate, often 
