82 ANNALS OP THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [Q, mindorensis. 
with a brush of furfuraceous hairs on the apex of each tooth, obscurely  striately 
veined ; the corolla not quite twice as long as the calyx, its segments lanceolate, 
acuminate, almost polished outside. (rutting perianth quite explanate, the calyx split 
into 3 parts down to the base. Fruit small, spherical, distinctly beaked, 7 mm. 
in diameter, the pericarp thin and brittle; scales in 21 series, very small, narrowly 
and superficially grooved along the centre, straw-yellowish with a narrow reddish- 
brown marginal line, the apex rather obtuse and the margin scariose and finely 
denticulate. Seed subglobular, very irregular and more or less flattened; albumen 
equable. e 
Hanrrar.—Philippines: Discovered in March-April 1906 by Dr. F. W. Foaworthy 
on Victoria Peak at 1050 m. above the sea in the Island of Palawan; No. 690 in 
the Manila Herbarium. 
OssrRvaATIONS.—Curiously enough this species is closely related to C. Warburgit 
K. Schum. of the coasts of German New Guinea. It approaches also C. polystachys 
in the spinescence of the leaf-sheaths and the general structure of the leaves and 
spadix, but in €, Foxworthyi the spikelets are always solitary at each spathel. C. 
Foxworthyi differs from OC. Warburgii in the longer petiole; in the shorter partial 
inflorescences; in the secondary spathes, not entire, but lacerated, and prickly in 
their basal part; in the spathels being also split and lacerated on the outer side, 
and in the fruit being spherical not ovoid. 
SuppL. Prare 45.—Calamus Foxworthyi Bece. One side of the basal portion 
of a leaf; intermediate portion of a leaf; portion of the terminal cirrus; upper end 
of a leaf-sheath bearing the base of a female spadix; detached female partial 
inflorescence ; fruits and seeds. The type specimen in Herb. Beccari (Foxworthy, ' 
No. 690 Herb. Manila.) 
143. Carawus MosrLEYANUS Becc. Add:-~—Becc. in Webbia di U. Martelli, i, 348. 
OBSERVATIONS,— To this species apparently belongs a specimen with male flower 
collected by Hallier in February 1904 (Herbarium of Manila) at San Ramon, distric 
of Zamboanga in Mindanao, and perhaps also imer’s specimens numbered 11886, 
collected also in Mindanao at Todaya on Mr. Apo. These specimens bear only 
male spadices, and it is difficult to distinguish the allied species of the group of 
€. palustris from these alone. 
143a. CALAMUS  MINDORENSIS Bece. in Philipp. Journ. Se. ii, Botany ‘1907), 
235 and iv, (1909), 625. 
DescripTion.—Rather robust and high scandent. Sheathed stem 4-5 cm. in diameter, 
Leaf-sheaths woody, 3 mm. thick, greenish, with a smooth surface, very thinly 
covered when young with a fugacious ashy indumentum, strongly gibbous above, 
feebly armed with very small, scattered, 3-4 mm. long, horizontal, semi-conical 
straight spines, which have the tip slightly darker than the surface of the sheath, 
and the base lighter and tumescent. Ocrea very short, axillary, liguliform. Leaves 
large, about 2 m. long in the pinniferous part; the cirrus very robust and strongly 
clawed ; petiole very short and robust or almost obsolete, flattish and smooth on the 
upper surface, 3 cw. broad, armed along the margins with rather stout 8-10 mm. 
