C. brevispadix.} ^ | PECCABL THE SPECIES OF CALAMUS.—SUPPLEMENT 101 
In the type specimen the fruit was immature, and consequently the description 
given of it on page 417 of this volume is not correct, 
SUPPL. Prare 46.—Calamus neglectus Bece. Apex of a leaf, and partial © 
inflorescences with mature fruits and detached seeds; from Ridley No. 3495 in the 
Herbarium at Calcutta. 
153. Carawus BREVISPADIX Ridley, Mat. Fl. Mal. Penins. ii, (1907), 207. 
€. bubuensis Bece. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard, Cale. xi, (1909), 417, pl. 183-male 
plant. 
C. elegans Becc. mss. ex Ridl. l c, p. 207, in regard to Wray's No. 3923 only. 
C. bubuensis Beec. which was founded on Wray’s No. 3923 is the male plant of 
O.[brevispadiz Ridley, which name has the right of priority, as it was published while 
my monograph was stil in the press.  Ridley's specimens have the sheathed stem 
1:5—2 em. in diameter, and on the: whole appear more robust than those of Wray; 
the leaf-sheaths are densely armed with very unequal, subhorizontal or slightly 
deflexed spines, some as much as 2 cm, long, and those near their mouth even 
longer but erect. The Jeaves have the petiole about 30 cm. long, relatively 
robust, 7-8 mm, broad, convex beneath, channelled above, with the margins obtuse 
and armed with unequal spines, of which several are 15-20 mm, long, rigid, dagger- 
shaped; the rachis has underneath a few solitary scattered claws, or is almost 
smooth; tie cirrus is slender; leaflets in subopposite groups of 4 to 6, with 
interposed nude spaces of variable length between the groups, very narrowly- 
lanceolate, 25-30 cm. long, 15-18 mm. wide in their broadest part: about the middle 
or a little below they are tricostulate, the mid-costa acute, and prominent and the 
side-costae very slender; the three costae carry a few short bristles towards the 
apex on the upper surface, and are quite smooth on the lower; the margins are 
usually smooth or nearly so from about the middle to the base, and are very 
minutely, remotely, and inconspicuously spinulous above. Female spadiz 60-70 cm, 
long, rigidulous, straight, slender, simply decompound, with 3-5 gradually diminish- 
ing partial inflorescences ; the peduncular part is strongly flattened, 20-30 em. long 
and about 4 mm. broad; it has very sharp edges armed with small fascicled spines; 
otherwise all the other parts of the spadix are unarmed or nearly so; primary 
spathes tubular, very narrowly infundibuliform, slender and flattened at the base, 
papyraceous, rather loose in their upper part, entire, glabrous, entire and very ob- 
liquely-truncate at the mouth, prolongel at one side into a triangular, acuminate, 
dorsally-keeled and erect point; the lowest spathe 6-10 cm. long, flattened with 
acute smooth edges; the upper spathes shorter and less flattened; partial inflor- 
escences emerge erect from the mouth of their respective spathes; the lower 
ones 10-12 cm. long with very few spikelets; the upper ones smaller and reduced 
to very few spikelets; secondary spathes very narrowly tubular-infundibuliform: 
closely sheathing ; spikelets spreading, attached at or a little above the mouth of 
their respective spathes with a distinct axillary callus, 3-7 cm. long, with 6-12 
flatly not very approximate (3-9 mm. apart) bifarious flowers on each side; 
spathels broadly unilaterally infundibuliform, ciliolate at the mouths, prolonged at 
one side into a short triangular point; involucrophorum laterally adnate outside its 
own spathel at the base of the one above, with a very short annular limb; invol- 
ucre cupular, truncate; areola of the neuter flower very distinct, lunate, sharply 
