3. 
Q. Winklerianus-) BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF CALAMUS. -SUPPLEMENT. 103 
secondary spathes tubular-infundibuliform, obliquely truncate, entire and ciliate at 
the mouths, and prolonged into a triangular acute point; spikelets inserted at the 
mouth of their own spathes with a distinct axillary callus, very short (1—2 cm, 
long) and with 2-6 flowers on each side; spathels infundibuliform, hairy  scabrid, 
produced at one side into a triangular point, which subtends their respective 
flowers; involucrophorum laterally adnate to the base of the spathel above its own 
and with a slightly concave irregular limb; involucre slightly concave, irregular, 
usually more or less distinctly 3-toothed; areola of the neuter flower lunate, marked 
after the fall of its flower by a conspicuous scar. Female flowers ovoid-conical, 
3 mm. long; the calyx urceolate, finely  striately-veined, 3-toothed; the corolla 
slightly protruding beyond the calyx; the stigmas, during the anthesis, protruding 
beyond the corolla and spreading. Neuter flowers similar to the female but slightly 
smaller, Fruiting perianth distinctly pedicelliform, 2 mm. long; the calyx callous at 
its base, 2 mm. thick, broadly 3-toothed; the segments of the corolla triangular, acute, 
slightly longer than the calyx. Fruit (from Halliers No. 704) ovoid or slightly 
obovoid, beaked on a round top, 14-15 mm. long inclusive of the perianth and 
beak, about 8 mm. broad; the beak narrow, 2 mm. long; scales slightly squarrose, 
broader than long, arranged in 12-13 longitudinal rows, dull straw-coloured and 
tinged with red-brown at the obtuse point, not grooved but rather ridged along the 
centre. ^ 
In all other respects Halliers specimens correspond to the type specimen 
figured in plate 185 of this volume. They have the sheathed stem 6 mm. and the 
naked canes 3:5-4 mm. in diameter; the internodes are 28 cm. long with a rather 
dull surface, slightly striate longitudinally; the spadix is slender; the secondary 
spathes are very slightly scabrid, and almost glabrous; the spikelets are very short, 
8-10 mm, long and with very few flowers, The fruit is that described above. 
Hewitt’s specimen from Sarawak has the sheathed stem 8 mm. in diameter; the 
leaflets are 10-15 cm. long, 20-25 mm. broad; the female spadix is more rigid and 
more robust in every part than in Hallier's specimens; the secondary spathes and 
the spathels are densely hairy-scabrid ; the spikelets are 1:5-2 cm. long, and have 
4-5 flowers on each side. The female flowers are described from this specimen. 
Another specimen from Sarawak, also collected by Hewitt at Siul, has a fruiting 
spadix 40 em. long with 3 partial inflorescences which are 10-12 cm. long, and earry 
10-13 spikelets in all, otherwise as described above; the fruits are ovoid-elliptical, or 
subobovoid-elliptical, 11-12 mm. long, and 6-7 mm. broad, but they are not entirely 
mature. 
152a. CALAMUS WiNKLERIANUs Bece. in Bot. Jahrb. xlvii, (1912), 91. 
Description.—Scandent, rather slender. Sheathed stem about 2:5 em, in diameter. 
Leaf-sheaths not flagelliferous, obliquely truneate at the mouth, covered, at first, with 
very minute ferruginous scales, ultimately glabrous, of a straw colour when dry, 
slightly transversely puckered above, armed with scattered, rather short, 15-10 mm. 
long, broad-based, horizontal or slightly deflexed spines. crea short, liguliform, 
densely bearded, Leaves cirriferous, about 60 cm. long in the  pinniferous part; 
the cirrus about as long, armed rather closely and almost regularly with 
