C. spinifolius. | BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF CALAMUS.—SUPPLEMENT. 95 
5 mm, long and 5 mm. broad, the form of the flower being given by the calyx, 
which has a very broad, flat, callous base and a very contracted, shortly 3-toothed 
mouth, the teeth about as long as the small segments of the corolla; stigmata small, 
triangular, spreading. Fruit spherical, rather large, 2 cm. in diameter, shortly beaked ; 
scales in 18 longitudinal series, deeply grooved along the centre, exactly rhomboidal, 
slightly broader than long (the largest 6 mm. broad, 5 mm. long) of a dirty straw 
colour, edged by a very narrow black line, the margins very minutely erosely 
toothed, the point obtuse. Seed  globular-oblong, 17 mm. long, 15 mm. broad, 
rounded at both ends, enveloped by a rather thick fleshy integument under which 
the surface is minutely pitted; albumen deeply ruminated. 
HaBrrAT.— The Philippines, The type specimen was collected at Ranohao, Pro- 
vince of Laguna in Luzon, by Lohr (No. 7088 in the Herbarium at Kew); 
vernacular name ‘‘Saba-ang.” It has been since found again in fruit by C. B. 
Robinson on Mount Binuang /alt. 900 m.) Province of Tayabas, Luzon (No. 9448 in 
Herb. Manila); Tagalog name “Uay.” According to a note of the collector the 
stem is 4'5 cm. in diameter; the plant 6 m. high; the leaves have 15 pairs of 
leaflets. 
Oxservations.—A very fine species, with a quite peculiar habit, easily dis- 
tinguishable by its short, straight, rigid, female spadix, by its spathes fringed at 
the mouth with numerous stiff, subspiny bristles, also by its large leaves with 
lanceolate pluricostulate leaflets, and by the large spherical fruit with a ruminate 
seed. In the fruit it approaches C. macrosphaerion Becc. 
SupPPL. PraTE 53.—Calamus grandifolius Bece. Upper portion of a leaf-sheath 
and petiolar part of a leaf; intermediate portion of a leaf, upper surface; female 
spadix in flower, its basal part only is wanting. From Loher’s type specimen 
No. 7088 in the Herbarium at Kew. 
148. CALAMUS sPINIFOLIUs Becc. Add:—Becc. in Webbia di U. Martelli, 348. 
Specimens in fruit have been for the first time collected on the Lamao River, 
Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon, by  Aher's collector, No. 1454 in the 
Herbarium at Manila, and I subjoin the description of them. 
The female spaaiz is simply branched and rather small, thinly and fugaciously 
rusty furfuraceous, diffusedly panicled, non-cirriferous, 35 em. long (in one specimen), 
divided into only 4 gradually diminishing branches or partial inflorescences ; 
primary spathes somewhat flattened, dorsally keeled and prickly on the keel, closely 
sheathing, slightly enlarged above, obliquely truncate and smooth at the mouths, 
and produced into a short, triangular, acute or acuminate point; the lowest primary 
spathe is somewhat longer than those following (8 cm. long; otherwise similar to 
the latter; the partial inflorescences are inserted outside the mouths of their respective 
spathes, are spreading and bear very few spikelets; the lowest inflorescence has only 
. 4 spikelets on each side, and is about 20 cm. long: the others are gradually 
smaller and have fewer spikelets; secondary spathes very closely sheathing, tubular, 
slightly enlarged above or very narrowly infundibuliform, usually smooth, but 
