72 - ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (C. wari-wariensis. 
much interrupted; rachis rather closely armed with a line of simple claws along 
the centre of the dorsum, and with a similar line on each margin. Male spadiz. . , 
Female spadiz elongate, partially supradecompound with few (3-4) superposed, rather 
distant, partial inflorescences; it is probably flagelliferous at its upper end, but the only 
one seen by me is without its apical portion; primary spathes elongate, tubular, the 
lowest about 25 em. long and 7-8 mm. broad, closely sheathing, strongly flattened in 
its lowest, slightly so in its upper part, pervious at its upper end, and bristly ciliate 
at the apex, densely beset with rigid, blackish bristles which rest on a swollen 
base; upper primary spathes more loosely sheathing than the lowest, slightly broad- 
ening in their upper part, terminating in a short triangular point, sparsely armed 
with very small hooked prickles. The partial inflorescences are paniculate, and 
in their lower portion have 1-2 compound or branched spikelets on each side, 
and simple gradually diminishing spikelets above; the lowest inflorescence is about 
12 cm. long, has 2 branched and 4-5 simple spikelets on each side; the other 
inflorescences are somewhat shorter and have fewer spikelets; secondary spathes are 
narrowly infundibuliform, not very tightly sheathing, unarmed, fugaciously furfura- 
ceous, truncate and ciliate at the mouth, produced at one side into a triangular 
very acute or acuminate point; spikelets 1-3 cm., long with 4-8 not very crowded, 
ascendent, almost erect flowers on each side: their axis slender, angular, zig-zag 
sinuous, puberulous and rusty  furfuraceous; spathels narrowly  infundibuliform ; 
involucrophorum slightly protruding beyond its own spathel, disciform, subpedicellate ; 
involucre almost on a level with the involucrophorum, orbicular, almost flat and 
disciform; areola. of the neuter flower not sharply defined, but the. insertion of 
the flower marked by a small distinct tubercle. Female flowers ovoid, acute 
(in bud), 3 mm. long; the calyx very shortly 3-toothed and finely striately veined. 
Neuter flowers about as long as the female but considerably thinner and of a quite 
different form; the calyx cyathiform; the corolla at least twice, at times almost 3 
times, as long as the calyx. Fruit . . . . 
Hanrrar.— British New Guinea: on Mount Wari-Wari, at about 1,500 m. elevation, 
collected by H. O0. Forbes in 1886 (No. 741, Herb. Brit. Museum). 
OssERVATIONS.—]t has the  leaf-sheaths as hispid or densely bristly at“ the 
mouth as C. barbatus, but it does not show appreciable affinities with that species, 
nor with any other, except, perhaps, with C. Cuthbertsoni, which it resembles in the 
structure of its female spikelets. It is however a much smaller plant, has small leaves 
and very few leaflets. 
The leaf-sheaths in the specimen of C. wart-wariensis seen by me (the upper 
part of a flowering stem) are not flagelliferous, and the leaves are not cirriferous 
although the rachis is strongly clawed. The plant however is said to be scandent, 
Probably the spadix ends in a flagellum, but in the available specimen the upper - 
part of the spadix is mutilated, 
Surpt. PrarE 38.—Calamus  wari-wariensis Bece. Sheathed stem; intermediate 
portion of a leaf; upper end of a plant with an entire spadix, The type specimens, 
Forbes No. 741 in the Herbarium of the British Museum. 
