1098 BENGAL PLANTS. (Calamus. 
natisect; segments acuminate; nerves parallel; rachis often 
produced as an armed flagellum; sheath armed, produced into a 
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scorpioid spikelets, Seine ither male or female or both in the 
axils of the bracteoles of axillary usually much elongated and 
much-branched pane sometimes produced as a flagellum ; 
spathes tubular or open, persistent, sheathing the peduncle and 
ranches of the spadix, and passing into bracts and bracteoles. 
¢ Sepals 3, connate in a cupular, pipe eee calyx. Petals 3, 
acute, coriaceous, valvate. Stamens 6; ents short; anthers 
phonon ed. ? Flowers slightly accrescent, | fee pedicelliform 
or Soak Sepals connate in a tubular, 3-toothed calyx. Petals 
3, connate in a tubular, 3-fid corolla; lobes valvate. Staminodes 
connate in a cu Carpels connate in an incompletely 3-celled 
ovary, clothed with retrorse scales; ovules basilar, erect; style 
short or long ; stigmas 4. Fruit globose or ellipsoid; style ter- 
minal; pericarp thin, clothed with adpressed, deflexed, closely 
imbricate, shining scales. Seed subglobose or oblong, smooth or 
pitted ; albumen equable or ruminate ; embryo ventral or basal. 
Stems erect, stout, ae leaflets almost equidistant, their margins and 
midrib benea motely ciliolate; petiole and rachis of leaf below 
ie with bait wha of flat, straight, pale spies ......-.++se.se+r+ erectus. 
climbing, usually slender :— 
ae f leaf not flagelliferous ; leaf-sheath flagelliferous :—[p. 109 9] 
Leafiets fascicled, or if discrete (viminalis var. fasciculata some- 
times) not equidistant :— 
Leaflets few, in opposite groups of 3-5 on each side of the slender 
rachis, 3-7-costate ; costee very slender, more or less setose above } 
short petiole and rachis armed with short, hooked spines...gracilis. 
Leafl 
with scattered, long, straight spines......viminalis var. fasciculata. 
Leaflets raga equidistant, all 3-costate ; all the cost setose above, 
usually the median only ticlow (in C. Guruba the leaflets sometimes 
quite waka on both surfaces) :— 
Leaflets many, approximate; short petiole margined pe 
et spines; rachis with one row of short, recurved 
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rae few, alternate ; long, slender petiole and rachis 
