78 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (C. Merrillii 
so widely different from C. rhomboideus, that Teijemann could not have given it even 
provisionally such a name. 
1:9 CALAMUS ZoLLINGERII Bece. 
Add to the localities: Celebes, Province of Minahassa (Menado\,  Koorder's 
No. 181018 (sterile) in the Buitenzorg Herbarium. 
140. Caramus Merritum Bece. Add:—Becc. in Webbia di. U. Mart. i, (1905), 
347, and in Philipp. Journ. Sc. iv, (1909), 629. 
Descrirtion.—I am able to complete the description of this large Calamus from a 
fine specimen preserved in the Herbarium at Kew, bearing an entire spadix in fruit, 
collected by Loher at Montalban, Province of Rizal, Luzon, No. 7076. A male spadix 
of the same species has been collected also by Loher on Mount Matulid, 1,200 m. 
elev. No. 7074 in the Kew Herbarium. 
Sheathed stem in Loher’s No. 7076 is 6-7 cm, in diameter. The fruiting 
spadiz is robust, nodding, 1:3 m. long, including a terminal, tail-like, flattened 
subulate appendage, which is formed of several tightly sheathing, smooth or slightly 
prickly spathes; it is divided into 8 gradually diminishing, spreading and arched 
partial inflorescences, of which the largest (which are also the lowest) are 35-40 em. 
in length. The lowest spathe is strongly flattened, 3-3°5 cm. broad, two-edged, the 
edges sharp, and without spines, 16-17 cm. long, very tightly sheathing, slightly 
obliquely truncate at the mouth, and very sparingly armed with a few straight 
small spines; the other primary spathes are tubular, more or less longitudinally split, 
obliquely truncate at the mouth, prolonged at one side into an acuminate, dorsally- 
keeled point, and bearing irregularly spread, small, broad-based, and  subbulbous 
horizontal prickles. The largest partial inflorescences carry 10-13 spikelets on each 
side, and terminate in a small, smooth, tail-like appendage; the secondary spathes are 
truncate at the mouth, and prolonged at one side into a broad triangular point ; 
they are either quite smooth or have at most one or two rudimentary or tuberculi- 
form prickles. The spikelets are 8-9 cm. in length, slightly flattened, 8 mm 
broad between the spathels (not taking into account the flowers). ‘Frui¢ spherical 
or nearly so when quite mature, surmounted by a rather thick and blunt beak 
about 12 mm. in diameter. Seed somewhat flattened, orbicular, 85-9 mm. in 
diameter, 6 mm. thick, flattish on the raphal side, convex on the other, exactly as 
already described and figured at page 392 and in plate 167. 
SuPPL. PLATE 41.—Calamus Merrillii Bece. Portion of the sheathed stem with 
the base of a spadix; portion of a leaf not very far from its base (upper surface) ; 
portion of the fruiting spadix. From Loher’s No. 7076 in the Herbarium at Kew. 
Catamus Merrittu var. Merrirrianus Becc. 
C. Merriitianus Bece. in Philipp. Journ. Se. ii, (1907), 233, and iv, (1909), 
629. | 
I now consider as belonging to a simple variety of C. Merrill, and even to one 
not well defined, the specimens of a Calamus collected in Mindoro by Mr. M. P, 
Merritt on the Bongobong River (No. 3912 Herb. Manila) upon which I had based 
