65 c ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA, (C. mitis. 
OxpseRvations.—It is certainly related to C. Cumingianus, but the female flowers 
of C. megaphyllus are supported by an involucrophorum very briefly pedicelliform, 
while that part is elongate and very conspicuous in C. Cumingianus. ^ In the 
structure of the female spadix it Gi deque e also C. Minahassae, but it is easily 
distinguishable from that species, as from almost all others species, by its very large, 
oblong-spathulate leaflets, very closely marked by innumerable sharp transverse 
veinlets. 
122, CALAMUS ADSPERSUS Dl. 
Add to the localities:-Java: Tenger, coll. Kobus (Koorders Nos. 199448, 
322618, 199438'; Residency Besuki, Pantjur-Indjen, 1500--1700 m., vern. name 
* Pandjaling Pan” (Koorders without number’; Residency Semarang, Gunong Telomojo, 
1300 m. elev. (Koorders No. 359948). 
124, Catamus MriwsanassaE Warb. 
Add to the localities:—Celebes: Prov. Minahassa (Menado) (Koorders 
No. 184058, and No. 184145). 
194a. Carawus mitis Bece, in Philip. Journ. Se. iii, (1908), 311. 
Description.—Slender, scandent, Sheathed stem 15 mm., in diameter, naked canes 
about 8 mm. in diameter. Leaf-sheaths gibbous above, greenish, thickly coriaceous, 
glabrous or very slightly and fugaciously furfuraceous, quite unarmed (always?), 
obliquely-truncate and smooth at the mouth. crea very short, or almost obsolete. 
Leaves cirriferous, the pinniferous part short, (35-40 cm. long) in 2 specimens; 
petiole almost wanting, the lowest leaflets being attached very near the mouth of 
the sheaths; rachis obscurely trigonous, smooth on the upper obtuse angle, armed 
underneath with small, solitary, scattered claws; the cirrus slender, about as long 
as or not much longer than the pinniferous part, closely armed with very many 
solitary, or more or less irregularly confluent (non-whorled) claws. Leaflets very few 
. (5-6), irregularly and remotely alternate on each side of the rachis (not grouped 
nor approximate in pairs), elongate-elliptical or oblanceolate-elliptical {or oblong- 
subspathulate, slightly concavo-convex, cuneately attenuate to an acute base: the 
intermediate ones 20-24 cm. long, 5:5-6:5 cm, in width at their broadest part (in 
the middle or slightly above), rather suddenly contracted at the summit into an 
acuminate not or very slightly bristly tip, papyraccous, green, dul), subconcolorous 
and glabrous on both surfaces: they have 5 primary nerves or costae, all reaching the 
apex, quite smooth and almost equally prominent on both surfaces; transverse 
veinlets very sharp, especially on the upper surface, numerous, approximate, subparallel 
and continuous; margins acute, furnished with very remote and very small appressed 
inconspicuous spinules. Male spadiz......... Female spadix erect, rigidulous, slender, 
simply decompound, 0:85-1 m. long, inclusive of a slender, non-clawed,  tail-like, 
10-12 cm. long, terminal appendage; the spadix is inserted not far below the mouth 
of its sheath and has a very few (2-3) partial inflorescences on its upper part, 
primary spathes tubular, elongate, not very tightly sheathing, more or less covered 
with a thin, detachable, and partly deciduous ferrugineous indumentum; the lowest 
