Calamus] CX. PALSLE 653 



Bamboo jungles. Orissa. Ganjam. Chittagong. Andamans. Lower Burma. — 

 Malay Penins. Coehinchina. Tufted, erect while young and in the open, usually 

 climbing, steins long, without the sheaths A-J in. diam., the younger parts and sheaths 

 covered with white powder. L. 3-5 ft. long, leaflets fascicled, linear-lanceolate, stouter 

 longitudinal nerves '2-3 on either side of midrib, nerves, midrib and edge of leaf with 

 sharp bristles, pet. and rachis armed with straight sharp spines A-1A in. long, sheaths 

 with flat whorled or single spines. Spadix 15 ft. long, much branched, drooping 

 terminating in a long flagellum. Fr. globose, mucronate, J-A. in. diam., endosperm 

 uniform. 20. C. concinnus, Mart. Mergui (I >r. Heifer, Jan. 1839). Climbing, leaflets 

 glossy, nearly equidistant, 12-20 by 1— li in., 4-6 stout n. on either side of midrib. 21. 

 C. hypoleucus, Kurz in Journ. As. Sue. Beng. 13. t. is. — Syn. Dccmonorops hijpoleucus, 

 Kurz. Thaungyin. L. 2-3 ft. long, leaflets fascicled, lanceolate, white beneath, 6-9 by 

 1J in., stouter n. numerous, sheaths densely spiny, rachis with short sharp recurved 

 spines. °. spadix short slender, spathes large, oblong-lanceolate. 22. C. myrianthus, Becc. 

 Tenasserim. Leaflets 30 by 2 in., white beneath, stouter n. numerous. i spadix 

 long, slender, much ramified, spikelets J in. long. 



(In Fruiting calyx pedicelliform. 



23. C. longisetus, firift". Palms t. 189 AB. — Syn. C. tiyrinus, Kurz in Journ. As. 



Soc. Bi-iig. 13 t. 25, 2ti. Andamans. Coco islands ' '. tiyrinus, Kurz; Prain in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. 60, p. 332). Pegu Yoma, eastern slopes in evergreen forest. Martaban. 

 Tenasserim. Stems scandent (erect, stemless, Griffith), surrounded by tufts of leaves. 

 Pet. and rachis armed with black broad sharp sjjines up to 1A in. long, in oblique 

 whorls or half whorls, in the upper portion less numerous and often single, leaflets 

 green beneath, thorny whip-like tendrils from the leaf-sheath. Spadix decompound, 

 nodding, terminating in a long flagellum. Fr. ovoid, beaked and stipitate, 1 in. long 

 with yellow and brown horizontal Viands, scales produced downwards into a lar^e 

 membranous lacerate appendage, endosperm uniform. 24. C. gracilis. Roxb. ; Griff. 

 Palms t. l!ii>. Vein. Mnjiitri bent, Beng. Upper Assam. Khasi hills. Cachar. Chit- 

 tagong. Climbing, slender. L. 2-3 ft. long, leaflets lanceolate, in opposite groups of 3-5 

 on either side of the rachis, sheath, the short petiole and tacliis armed with short 

 hooked spines. Flagella on sheath and spadix. Spadix slender, drooping, spathes 

 tubular, sparingly spinous, spathels not imbricate. Fr. oblong, j in. long, seated on 

 the campanulate calyx, scales straw-coloured. 25. C. Helferianus, Kurz. Tenasserim. 

 Slender, climbing, sparingly armed, rachis slender, trigonous, leaflets 8-12 bv A-:{ in. 

 in series of 2-6 on one side. Spadix very slender, spathes narrow, tubular, iA. 1 in. 

 long, corolla smooth, not striate. 



26. C. travancoricua, Bedd. Vern. Tsjeru tajurel, Mai. Malabar. Travancore. 

 Climbing, stem very slender. L. 18-24 in. long, leaflets in distant opposite groups of 

 3-5, 4-6 by A— $ in., the greatest width at or above the middle, thence tapering to a 

 capillary point, stouter n. not very prominent, spadix long, slender, spathes with a 



long lam late blade, & spikelets \-\ in. long. 27. C. Rheedei, Griff. Vern. Kntu 



tajurel. Mai. Malabar. Leaflets in very distant groups of 3, linear-lanceolate, longer 

 than in 26. Fr. ellipsoid or oblong, endosperm ruminate. 



II. Leaf rachis produced into a long flagellum. 

 A. Fruiting calyx pedicelliform. 



2s. C. latifolius, Roxb. ; Griff. Palms t. 198. — Syn. 0. macracanthut et < . inermia 

 T. And. Vern. Korak bent, Beng. Yamala, Burm. Subhimalayan tract from Sikkim 

 eastwards, ascending to 2,000 ft. Assam. Khasi hills. Cachar. Chittagong. Lower 

 Burma. A powerful climber, stem more than 100 ft. long, without the sheaths, up to 

 1 in. diam., 1. 8 12 ft. long, leaflets usually in pairs on the same side of the rachis 

 lanceolate, I 11 20 by 1 I in., stouter n. 2 5 on either Bide of midrib, margins spinose- 



ciliate, n. nnked. Sheaths densely nr il with short spines and large broadh 



triquetrous ones up to 1 in. long, rachis and flagellum ar d with claws ol 



recurved thorns. Spadix very large, fr. nearly I in. lung, pale, seated on the broadly 

 campanulate rigid calyx-tube, endosperm ruminate. On the Salween in Tenasserim 



in 1859, this species was esteei I st for rafting, and the ropes at the Eyodan were 



mostly made of it. Other Rattans < sidered useful in those days were: C. Oaruba 



Hum. (Kyeinni), and Korthaltia laciniosa, Mart. I Wapo Kyein). PUctocomia 



macroatachya, Km-/ (Kyeinbau) was pronoun I i" be useless. 29. c. Porimi, lice. 



Burma. Fr. oblong, ; I In. long. 



It. 1'Yilit ilig calyx not p& I ice] I i I'urin. 



80. C. andamanicus, Kurz. Andamans. Nicobars. Coco islands. A loftj climber 



not t ufted, the Bheathed stems as thiok as the arm, 1 1 anes up to I in. diam. I 



ft. long, leaflets equidistant, alternate, linear, 24 80 by I in., margin and n. on the under- 

 side with scattered long spinesoent bristles, sheaths reddish-brown armed with oblique 



