C. Moszkowskianus.] ®ECCARI. THE SPECIES OF CALAMUS.—SUPPLEMENT. 139 
texture, striately veined, campanulate, parted down to the middle into 3 triangular 
acuminate lobes; the corolla is one and a half times as long as the calyx, its 
segments are lanceolate acuminate, puberulous and striately veined externally; stamens 
Sterile with very narrow filaments and elongate-sagittate anthers; ovary elongate, 
densely covered with fulvescent wool; stigmata thickish, triangular-acuminate, recurved. 
Fruit 3 em. long, 11-13 mm. broad, elongate-ovoid, rather suddenly contracted in its 
upper fourth part to an elongate, narrowly conical point and terminating in & 
bluntish stigmatic apex; scales, possibly more numerous than in any other Calamus, 
arranged in 24 longitudinal series, flattish, not grooved along the centre, produced 
into a triangular point, yellow, or reddish-yellow in their posticous part, and 
gradually passing into a shiny black at the point; the margins are very peculiarly 
and very densely rusty-tomentose all round. Seed, elongate, narrowing towards both 
ends, 18 mm. long, 7 mm. broad, very slightly broader at the base than above, 
covered by a dry (probably once fleshy) integument; chalazal fovea superficial, very 
elongate; when the integument is removed the surface of the seed is smooth ; 
albumen equable; embryo basal. 
HanrrAr.— Central subtropical China. Discovered by the Rev. J. Cávalerie oi 
the Catholie Mission of Chung-king at Piri-fa in the Koei-tcheou (Kwei-tschou), The 
fruits were gathered in the year 1903 (No. 1263), and the flowers in February 1905 
(No. 2204). 
OBSERVATIONS.—It is a most peculiar species," evidently related to 0, arbore- 
scens and like that non-scandent, and with leaflets white underneath; it is however 
quite distinct from any other especially by its curious long, conically-produced fruit 
having numerous scales, ‘fringed with a thick rusty tomentum. 
SUPPL. PLATE $81.— Calamus oxycarpus Bece. Female spadix in flower, spikelet 
with mature fruits; portion of a leaf; seed cut longitudinally through the embryo. 
Cavalerie's entire specimen. 
JOALAMUS MoszkKOoWsKIANUS Becc. n. sp. 
Drscription.—Scandent, slender. Sheathed-stem 12—15 mm. in diameter. Leaf-sheaths 
very densely beset with isolated (non-confluent) capillary or subbristly, brown, unequal, 
spreading spines, 2—4 em. long or less, resting on bulbous bases: only a small portion 
of the surface of the lesf-sheaths, near the mouth on each side of the base of the 
petiole, is smooth and bare of spines: the mouth is obliquely truncate and densely 
edged with the same kind of subbristly spines as the surface, the bristles extending 
also to the ocrea, especially to its margins. Ocrea elongate-liguliform, about 5 cm. 
long, of a rigid texture. Leaves short, 50 cm. long (in 2 specimens), non-cirriferous ; 
petiole obsolete: the rachis rigid and relatively robust and thickish, powerfully armed 
with a line of approximate, relatively robust, single claws along the centre of dorsum 
and with another line of similar claws near each margin; on the upper surface, 
the rachis is smooth throughout, flattish near the base and with a salient angle 
above. Leaflets numerous, spreading or almost horizontal, closely set, and equidistant; 
or nearly so, on the lower part of the rachis more or less distinctly grouped 
towards the end: in any case the naked spaces of the rachis are very short, and in 
the group the leaflets are regularly set, about 1 cm, apart: they are narrowly lanceolate, 
somewhat tapering towards the base from below the middle, and not very long 
Ann. Roy. Bot. Garp. CarcurrA Vor. XI. 
