100 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [0. neglectus. 
small tail-like prickly appendage; secondary spathes tubular, 5-7 cm. long, closely 
sheathing, obliquely truncate, entire and glabrous at the mouths, produced at one 
side into a short triangular point, armed especially on their upper part, with very 
small often deflexed prickles, terete above, and concavo-convex in their lower part ; 
spikelets iuserted just at the mouths of their respective spathes: those of the lower 
part of the partial inflorescences 15-16 cm. long, and with 12-13 flowers on each 
side, the others gradually smaller. Other parts exactly as already described. 
Elmer’s specimens differ very slightly from the typical ones (which are 
represented by two fruiting spikelets only) by their shorter spikelets with fewer 
fruits, by the spathels being less distinctly ciliate or sometimes glabous, and by 
the fruit being slightly smaller (14 mm. in diameter) and with a more prominent 
mucro. The fresh fruit is described by Elmer in his field notes as “yellowish 
white except the brown-margined scales, edible but very sour.” 
SurPL. Pr4TE 55,—Calamus manillensis H. Wendl.—Portion of the sheathed stem; 
portion of the spadix with mature fruits; leaflets (from Elmers No. 11714 in 
Herb. Beccari); spikelet with almost full grown fruits from Elmer’s No. 10560 in 
Herb. Beccari. | 
152. QCaraxus wzeLecrUs Bece. Add:—Ridley, Mat, Fl. Mal, Penins. ii, 212. 
I have recognized this rare and very little known Culamus in a specimen 
preserved in the Herbarium at Calcutta, collected by Ridley (No. 3495) in Selangor at 
Kwala Lumpur. Ridley writes of C. neglectus Becc. that it was ‘founded on some 
unrecognizable scraps in Griffith’s Malacca Herbarium, probably bits of €. palustris," 
but as may be seen in plate 182 of this volume, C neglectus is a plant quite 
different from C. palustris and approaches only C. brevispadiz and C. wirilispinus. 
.The above mentioned specimen consists of the summit of two leaves, and of a 
partial influrescence with thoroughly mature fruits. In the type specimen the leaf 
terminates in a small cirrus; but in the leaves of the present specimen the leaflets 
gradually diminish in size above and the uppermost are almost rudimentary, as occurs 
in other species that have occasionally cirriferous and non-cirriferous leaves; other- 
wise the leaves agree exactly with the description already given, only the largest 
leaflets among those at hand are 25 cm. long and 13 mm. broad. The fruit is ovoid- 
elliptical, suddenly surmounted by a conspicuous mucro, is 15-16 mm. long, not 
taking the muero and the fruitipg perianth into account, and 1l mm. broad; the 
mucro is 3mm. long; scales in 18 series, slightly convex, very faintly grooved 
along the centre, straw-coloured with a dark red-brown marginal line, which broadens 
towards the somewhat prolonged, triangular, not very appressed, erosely toothed 
tip. On the whole the pericarp is very thin and brittle. Sv ovoid-elliptical, 
slightly flattened, rounded at both ends, 11 mm. long, 8 mm. broad, 7 mm. thick 
rather closely deeply pitted and obsoletely tubercled all round; chalazal fovea dontral, 
narrow, rather deep; albumen rendered ruminate on the periphery by the iifegnmont 
penetrating into the pits; embryo central on the side opposite to the chalaza. Fruiting 
perianth broadly campanulate, subpedicelliform. 
