C. Balansaeanus.] ®ECCARI. THE SPECIES OF CALAMUS.—SUPPLEMENT. -o a 
188. Carawus contrcstrIs Bece. Add:—Ridley, Mat. Fl. Mal. Penins. ii, 205. 
189. Carawus Lossianus Becc. Add:—Ridley, Mat. Fl. Mal. Penins. ii, 204. 
Ridley describes this palm as having a “stem short not climbing, 3 to 7 feet 
long, the rattan ài inch through, green with short joints;” he adds a few other 
localities to those given by me and says that it is common in dry woods; that it 
receives the Malay an name “Rotan Manana," and that it grows also in Borneo, 
whence I have however seen no specimens. 
121a. Catamus BaLawsAEANUs Becc. in Webbia di U. Martelli, iii (1910) 230, 
242 and in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1911, 13, 
Descriptiox.—Very slender. Stems 1'5 m, high, erect (Balansa), but as the 
spadices are distinctly  cirriferous, probably the plant at times is more or less 
climbing. Sheathed stem about 8 mm. in diameter. Leaf-sheaths gibbous above, armed 
with straight, horizontal, rather slender, scattered spines, which are 10 mm. long at 
most, frequently much smaller, furfuraceous-fringed on the edges when young, 
Leaves — ,nom-cirriferous) in one specimen 65 em. long on the whole; petiole 
plano-convex or slightly concave on the upper surface, armed on the acute edges 
with acicular, 5-10 mm. long, straight, or at times slightly hooked spines; the 
dorsum armed along the centre with a few solitary claws; rachis bifaced and 
smooth on the upper surface, armed throughout below with a few small solitary 
claws, Leaflets rather, numerous (about 25 on each side), irregularly approximate into 
3—4 groups ;with rather short vacant spaces interposed between the groups; in the 
groups the leaflets are almost equidistant, 10-12 mm. apart, and are spreading at 
a rather wide angle: they are thinly papyraceous, rigidulous, linear-lanceolate, 
broadest about their middle, and from thence taper almost equally towards both 
ends, acute at the base, and very gradually acuminate above to a fine bristly tip; 
they have 3 very slender spinulous costae on the upper surface: underneath the 
mid-costa alone is very sparingly bristly or else quite smooth; transverse veinlets 
very conspicuous on the upper surface, as they are of a lighter colour than the 
blade, which keeps a bright green tint in the herbarium specimens; margins 
very minutely spinulous; the intermediate leaflets are 15-17 cm. long., 10-13 
mm. broad: the lower are slightly shorter but not narrower, and those of the 
terminal group are 10-12 cm. long. 8-10 mm. broad; the two of the apex are 
quite: free at the base. Male spadiz . . . . Female spadiz elongate, flaccid, 
flagelliform, very slender, as thick as a pack-thread, it has very few (2-3 or at 
times more?) distant, spiciform, partial inflorescences, and terminates in a very fine, 
minutely and irregularly clawed flagellum; the lowest primary spathe is tubular, 
14 em. long. 4 mm. broad, flattened and acutely two-edged, prickly on the edges, 
otherwise smooth, prolonged beyond the insertion of its own partial inflorescence 
into a lanceolate acuminate limb; upper primary spathes very elongate, armed with 
small scattered claws, very narrowly tubular, more or less split above and produced 
somewhat beyond the insertion of their respective partial inflorescences into an ear-. 
like laneeolate limb; in their lower part, the primary spathes gralaally- pass info 
the very slender strongly flattened axial part; the partial inflorescences are 10-12 cm. 
long, issue from' inside their respective spathes, and have a very short pedicellar 
Aww, Ror. Bor. Garp. Oatourra Vor. XI. 
