C. Elmerianus. | BECCARIL THE SPECIES OF CALAMUS.—SUPPLEMENT. - 69 
epathe is 7-8 cm. long, slightly compressed and obscurely 2-keeled, truncate at 
the mouth, armed with a few very small spines on the sides near its base, 
otherwise smooth; the 2-3 following spathes do not bear inflorescences, are longer 
than the first, cylindraceous, also obliquely truncate at the mouth, smooth or with a 
line of very small claws on the outer side especiaily near their summit or even 
are quite smooth; the upper spathes are prolonged at the summit into a very short 
triangular point and often split there on one side; partial inflorescences inserted at 
or a little below the mouth of their respective spathes, small, simple-branched, not 
scorpiod, 6-8 em. long, with 5-6 alternate, distichally inserted, gradually shortening 
spikelets on each side of the short, straight, rather rigid, main-axis; secondary spathes 
infundibular, rather loosely sheathing, truncate, entire and glabrous at the mouth, slightly 
apiculate at one side; spikelets slender, slightly arched, pon-scorpioid, inserted just at 
the mouth of their spathes, not distinctly cailous in the axilla: the lower and larger are 
about 3 cm. long and have about 10, very regularly set, bifarious flowers on each 
side: the others are gradually slightly shorter and have fewer flowers; spathels shortly 
asymmetrically  infundibuliiorm, with a broad spreading limb which subtends the 
involuerophorum; the latter inserted just at the mouth of its spathel at the base of 
the one above, very shortly stalked, orbicular, flat or discoid, non-callous at 
the axilla; involucre very slightly exceeding the involucrophorum, discoid, orbicular 
or very obsoletely 2-toothed on the side of the neuter flower, of which the 
areola is depressed, obsolete, but with a small tuberculiform scar in its centre. Fruit- 
ing perianth very shortly pedicelliform; the calyx slightly callous at the base, parted 
halfway down into 3 semiovate lobes; the segments of the corolla acute, about as 
long as the calyx. Fruit globose, small, 9-10 mm. in diameter, surmounted by a small, 
slender, almost cylindric beak 1'5 mm, long; scales in 16-18 series, broadly rhom- 
boidal, of a dirty straw-yellow colour, dull, almost flat, subsquarrose or not very 
appressed, very faintly and narrowly grooved along the centre, with a very narrow 
discoloured or sometimes reddish margin, tip not prolonged, obtuse, usually red- 
brown. Seed globular, 7 mm. in diameter, very slightly compressed; it has a small 
round deep chalazal fovea in the centre of the raphal side, and is covered with a 
thinly crustaceous (once fleshy) integument, otherwise it has an even, not pitted surface ; 
albumen equable ; embryo basal, very near the hilum. 
Hanrrat.—The Philippines: Bubayanes, Camiguin Island (No. 4075, Herb. Bur. 
Sc. Manila); Batanes, Batan Island (No. 3817, Herb. Bur. Sc. Manila), collected by 
E. Fenix in fruit, June 1907. The fruit is said to be white and edible. 
OssrRvATIONS.—In the shape of the leaflets it somewhat resembles C. Cumingianus, 
but its affinities are with C, Minahasse. 
Brit. Piare 36.—Calamus mitis Bece. Portion of the stem with a leaf and an 
entire spadix in fruit. From No. 4075, Herb. Manila in Herb. Becc. 
195a CaLAMUs ErwrRrANUs Bece. in Elmer, Leaflets Philip. Bot, ii. (1909), 647. 
Desoription.—Scandent. Sheathed stem 15-18 mm. in diameter. ^ Leaf-sheaths dark- 
green, rather densely set with slender light coloured spines. Leaves cirriferous 0°50-1 m. 
long in the pinniferous part, with few inequidistant leaflets; petiole obsolete or 
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