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Prate 9.—Ueratolobus laevigatus Bece. (forma typica)  Ridley's specimen with 
‘mature fruits, No. 12128, from Semangkok Pass. 
Pirate 10.—Ceratolobus ` laevigatus Beec. (forma typica). Portion of the sheathed 
stem with a leaf and a male spadix ; portion of the sheathed stem with a Somalo 
spadix; from Scortechini's No. 123° collected in Perak (Herb. Bece.) 
PLate 11.—Ceratolobus laevigatus var. subangulatus Bece. Portion of the plant 
with a spadix in fruit and an entire leaf. From. “Piante Sumatrane " No. 519 in 
Herb. Becc. This corresponds to Calamus subangulatus Miq. 
CALOSPATHA BECC. 
Bece. in Ann. R. Bot. Garden, Calcutta, xii, 232. \ 
A calamoid dioecious polyearpic Y palm, apparently of the habit of a Daemonorops 
Stem c9 Uo DATE N S - Male spadix . . . . . Female spadix 
(or its sibus FECE TORTO ?) on ci with several persistent subdistichally 
imbrieate large spinous spathes, each of which, except the lowest, embraces a 
floriferous branchlet. The outer or lowest spathe sheaths a short peduncular part, and 
only partially envelopes: the others.  Flower-bearing branchlets shorter than the 
spathes, slightly divided, sheathed by short spathels as in Daemonorops, and bearing 
alternate female flowers, provided with involucrophorum and involuere; apparently 
the female flowers are not aecompanied by neuter ones, as no areola for their insertion 
is visible; in any case the areola is inconspicuous. Female flowers (judging from the 
fruiting perianths) have the calyx short, with 3 acute points; the corolla is longer 
than the calyx and very deeply 3-parted ; the sterile stamens form with their connate 
filaments a shallow 6-radiate cup; ovary (judging from the fruit) globular, having 
a short thick style and thickly subulate internally lamellate stigmas. Fruit con- 
taming 2—3 seeds, globular, clothed with appressed scales, shortly and stoutly beaked, 
and crowned by the recurved permanent stigmas. Seeds enveloped by a very scanty 
integument ; the testa smooth; the chalazal fovea indistinct ; albumen homogeneous ; 
embryo basal. 
CALOSPATHA Scorrecninit Bece. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard., Calcutta, xii, 232. 
Daemonorops Calospatha Ridley, Mat. Fl. Mal. Penins. ii, 176 (partly ?). 
Descrrption.—The only specimen available is an apparently entire lateral 
fruiting spadix, 35 cm. in length, having a short flattened pedicellar part, 8 mm. 
wide, covered irregularly with light brown, straight, flattened spines, 10—25 mm. 
long; the lowest spathe is oblong, 15 mm. in length, about 3 em. wide, of a 
firmer texture than those which follow, but of the same’ colour and appearance, 
and covered all over outside with scattered unequal spines. The spathes suffult- 
ing the floriferous branchlets are about 10 in number, of a deep cinnamon-brown 
colour, dry, subfoliaceous, thinly rigid-papyraceous, very minutely rusty-furfuraceous 
outside, almost polished inside, oblong, very shortly sheathing at the base, otherwise 
explanate, with a broad apex which very suddenly narrows into a long subulate 
beak ; the latter armed with conspicuous spreading straight, flattened, light brown 
spines, 10—15 mm. long, having a bulbous base; the lower spathes have the 
blade 10—12 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, the beak a em. long, and are more or less 
ANN. Roy. Bot. GARD. CALCUTTA, VOL. XII. 
