C. Foxworthyi.) . "BEOOARL THE SPECIES OF CALAMUs.-SUPPLEMENT. 81 
142a. Catamus FoxwoRrHYI Becc. n. sp. 
Description.—Seandent and rather robust, about 7 m. long (Robinson). Sheathed 
stem about 4 cm. in diameter or at times more. Leaf-sheaths coriaceous, very denaely 
covered with innumerable, blackish, glossy, rigid, subpungent, criniform, 15-20 mm. long - 
bristles, which are arranged in almost continuous series, and have their bases immersed 
in a rusty, cottony indumentum. Leaves rather large (about 2 m. long-- Foxworthy) ; 
the cirrus elongate, armed at almost regular intervals of 2-3 cm. with i-whorls 
of robust, black-tipped claws; petiole short and robust, about 20 cm. long and 2 cm, 
broad (in one specimen), flattish, quite smooth and glabrous on the upper surface, with 
prickly margins, softly furfuraceous and densely armed underneath with unequal, 
slender, straight, irregularly seriate spines; rachis in its first portion furfuraceous and 
also spinous on the back, prickly and with a narrow channel at the sides where 
the leaflets are inserted; in its upper portion the rachis is almost rectangular in 
cross section, has a salient, acute, smooth angle above, and is armed vnderneath 
with half-whorls of very robust; highly connate, black-tipped claws; leaflets. very 
numerous, very regularly set, 20-25 cm. long, 10-12 mm. broad, the lower very 
approximate and more spreading than the upper; the latter 20-25 mm. apart; all are 
linear-lanceolate, slightly narrowing towards the base, very gradually acuminate to a 
subulate bristly tip, papyraceous, green and concolorous on both surfaces, with 3 
sharp, slender costae, which carry rather long bristles on both surfaces; the bristles | 
are light coloured with a blackish base; margins remotely, irregularly and sparingly 
bristly. Male spadiz . . , . Female spadix apparently shorter than the leaves (rot 
seen entire by me); it has a rigid, straight, flattened main axis, and numerous distichous, 
approximate, partial inflorescences; the peduncular part is very short, flattened, 
` furfuraceous and covered with black spiculae; primary spathes short, the lower 6-7 cm. 
long, 15-20 mm. broad, strongly flattened, tubular, closely sheathing, slightly 
"infundibular, sprinkled with black acicuiar spines, papyraceous, dry and discoloured 
. in their upper part which remains sharply distinct from the lower and living: they 
are entire, glabrous and obliquely truncate at the month, prolonged at one side 
into a triangular acuminate point; partial inflorescences 25-30 cm. long, arising 
erect from their respective spathes and inserted inside of them by a distinct pediceilar 
part and bearing distichally 6-7 spikelets; secondary  spathes —tubular-infundi-- 
buliform, membranous, dry and marcescent, prickly on their basal part, prolonged at 
one side into a triangular, usually split and lacerated point; spikelets slightly ` 
flattened, erect, slightly arched, inserted inside their respective sputhes by a flattened 
pedicellar part, rather brittle: the lowest and largest are 6-8 cm. long, and have 
12-14 flowers on each side: the upper are somewhat shorter and have fewer 
flowers; spathels broadly asymmetrically infundibuliform, striately veined, densely 
furfuraceous in their basal pari, truncate at the mouth, split longitudinally or 
lacerated on the outer side; involucrophorum inserted at the bottom of its own 
spathel, dimidiately infundibuliform, rather deep, somewhat narrowed to the base 
or subpedicellate, bidentate and acutely 2-keeled on the side next to the axis; 
involucre deep, cupular, entire, asymmetrically evolute on the side of the neuter 
flower; areola of tbe neuter flower distinct, concave, sharply edged ; sometimes two 
female fiowers and a neuter one spring from the same spithel. Femaie flowers oblong, 
4 mm. long, 1° mm. broad; the calyx tubular-campanulate, superficially 3-dentate, 
ANN. Roy. Bor. Garp. Carcurra, Vor. XI. 
