‘ 3 i — ENT. 
Q. unifarius.) BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF CALAMUS,—SUPPLEMED 113 
side is flat with acute margins but externally is convex, and armed with very small 
claws; otherwise these spathes are nnarmed, and finely striately veined ; spikelets 
spreading, inserted above the mouth of their respective spathes, rather stiff; the 
lower and largest 6 cm. loag, with about 15 flowers on each side; the others 
gradually smaller and with fewer flowers; the spathels suddenly broaden from a 
terete base to an asymmetrically infundibuliform limb, produced at one side into a 
triangular spreading or deflexed point; involucrophorum sessile, shallowly cupular, 
laterally adnate to the base of the spathel above its own; involucre shallowly 
cupular, entire, moulded on the involucrophorum and at a level with it; areola of 
the neuter flower conspicuous, lunate, sharply defined. ‘The fruiting pertanth has 
the calyx callous at its base and very briefly pedicelliform, split into 3 broad lobes ; 
the corolla is slightly longer than the calyx; its segments are ovate acute. The fruit 
is obovoid, narrows distinctly to the base, is rounded above, and surmounted 
suddenly by a rather conspicuous mucro about 2 mm. long : ineluding the perianth 
and mucro the whole fruit is 17 mm. long and 11 mm. broad ; scales arranged in 
12 longitudinal series, each series composed of about 6 well conformed scales: they 
are regularly rhomboidal in shape, about as wide as long, yellowish brown, neatly 
edged all round with a narrow uniform black band, bave the point not produced 
but obtuse and the margins not or only very inconspicuously erosulate. Seed 
globular, about 7 mm. in diameter, enveloped in a rather thick integument, other- 
wise deeply and coarsely pitted or alveolate; ulbumen non-ruminate, the integument 
being easily removed from the pits; embryo (as in the type) in the centre 
of the face opposite to the raphe. 
Hasirat.—The type specimen in the Herbarium at Buiienzorg is attached to 
the same sheet as a portion of a spadix of a Daemonorops periacanthus Miq., 
and 
bears only a label in the handwriting of Teijsman, which states: “ Rotang roendang 
nioer" Soengel liat (Banka). Certainly the locality of Banka is correct, as 
Miquel mentions that island for the habitat of C. Ozleyanus, but it remains 
uncertain to which of the two specimens must be applied the vernacular name 
adduced. 
OBsERVATIONS.—It differs from the typical ©. Oxleyanus, growing in Singi 
in the fruit being obovate (not spherical) and having more scales, and in the 
spathes of the partial inflorescences having a prickly base whereas in the type these 
spathes are smooth. 
SuPPL. PLATE 63.—Calamus Oxleyanus var. obovatus Becc. Partial inflorescence 
-of a fruiting spadix. The entire type specimens in the Buitenzorg Herbarium. 
(The figure in the lower part of the plate.) 
174. CALAMUS  MICROSPHAERION Bece. Add:—Becc, in Philip, Journ. se. iv, 
(1909) 627. 
I consider as belonging to this species a sterile specimen collected be MW V. 
Hutchinson in Mindanao, Moro Province (No. 4818 Herb. Forestry Bureau, Manila). 
176. Catamus unirarius H, Wendl. 
Add to the localities: Java, Simpolan (700 m.] Residency of Besouki, Koorders 
No. 21689 £ and No, 28553 £ in Buitenzorg Herbarium. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. CarcurTA Vor. XI, 
