120 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [@, Schlechterianus: 
somewhat inflated above in the upper third part or thereabouts: they expand into an 
earlike limb, and terminate in a broadly triangular or acute or bluntish point, more 
or less fringed with chaffy scales on the edges; the spathes are thinly covered 
externally, especially above, with a grayish furfuraceous tomentum and in addition 
are very minutely prickly on the back towards the apex; the lowest spathe is 
abcut 18 em, long and 2:5 cm. broad, the others are gradually smaller; the partial 
inflorescences are inserted inside the mouths of their respective spathes: they form 
a panicle ovoid iu outline and carry 9-6 spikelets bearing gradually diminishing 
branches, etc, on each side; secondary spathes tubular, elongate-infundibuliform, 
loosely sheathing, almost horizontally truncate and ciliate at the mouth, slightly 
produced at one side into a small point, unarmed and thinly furfuraceous-tomentose 
externally; the lower of these secondary spathes is rather large, 3-35 cm. long, 
about 8-10 mm. broad at the mouth; the other secondary spathes speedily decrease 
in length and width; the lowest spikelet-bearing branchlets are 7-8 cm, long and 
carry 5-6 speedily decreasing spikelets on each side; the spikelets are smal, have 
a zig-zag sinuous axis and very few distichous. flowers :4—5) only on the lowest 
and largest; spathels hairy-furfuraceous, suddenly expanded into a short broadly 
infundibuliform limb, produced at one side into an acute spreading point; involucre 
sessile and inserted at the base of the spathel above its own, orbicular, very slightly 
concave. Mak flowers lanceolate, acute, 4 mm. long, 1 mm, thick or a little more, 
subtrigonous, often slightly asymmetrical; the calyx is cyathiform-campanulate, 
with 3 very broad, triangular, acute teeth; the corolla is about 3 times as long as 
the calyx, with its divisions pergamentaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, slightly sinuous, 
and finely-striately veined externally. 
Hasirar.—New Guinea: Kaiser Wilhelmsland in the forests on Mount Kani at 
about 1,000 m. elevation. Collected by Dr. R. Schlechter, 10th May 1908 (No. 17689 
in the Berlin Herbarium), 
OBSERVATIONS.— C. Schlechterianus is evidently related to the Philippine species of 
the C. swphonospaihus group; at least its male spadix is extremely like both in its 
dimensions, and in the shape of the inflated spathes to that of the above mentioned 
species. It is distinguishable by the leaf-sheaths being very densely hispid; by 
the regularly pinnate cirriferous leaves with a moderately iong petiole, prickly on 
its edges; by the numerous, equidistant, linear-lanceolate leaflets acuminate to a 
very fine capillary tip, with 3 bristly costae above, and bristly spinulous on the 
mid-costa alone underneath; by the male spadices forming au narrow elongate- 
cupressiform panicle with several gradually decreasing branched partial inflorescences 
and terminating in a tail-like sheathed unarmed appendage; by the tubular somewhat 
inflated spathes; by the very small, zig-zag, few-flowered spikelets, and by the 
lanceolate sessile acute male flowers. Of this species Dr. Schlecter has collected also 
a male spadix not accompanied by leaves, ard numbered No. 17639; in this spadix 
the spatnes are almost truncate at their mouths, the spikelets are more slender, and 
the flowers a little broader, and with the corolla slightly shorter and less acuminate 
than in the spadix cf No, 17689. 
SuPPL. PLATE 67.—Calamus Schlechterianus Bece. Upper portion of a leaf-sheath 
with the lower part of a leaf; intermediate portion of a leaf; an entire male 
spadix. From Schlechter’s No. 17689 in the Berlin Herbarium. - 
