ON THREE NEW CHINESE CALAMI. 265 
Malayan species described, one being apparently nee isolated in 
regard to relationship. Nor is this an unexpected conclusion : Hon 
kong is far distant from the focus of the genus, an sa vehiy 
ifferent vegetati the seven species recorded from Ceylon, so 
close to the Indian continent, three said to be endemic; and con- 
g those oO Blume writes * :—“ Plerseque 
nostro quidem opere intelligitur ut omnes Asie conti- 
nentis secs, mull fere excepta, a Javanis revera differunt, ita has 
Tursu Moluccas incolunt esse diversas, quinetiam singulis 
fere insulis att Acekipislagl indici suas esse species, atque adeo inex- 
haustas esse naturze harum palmarum eed ies divitias.” One of 
em is a Demonorops, a group surely of no more than sectional 
value,t the other two are true Calami, and palong to Griffith’s Coleo- 
spathe, the first to the division a. erecta, eflagellifere, the second, I 
ume, to 8. scandentes, petiolis eflagelliferis.t 1 have followed Von 
Martius’ arrangement ; but am disposed to believe that the circum- 
scription of primary groups mainly or exclusively by the presence or 
absence of lora and cirrht, however convenient for purposes of classi- 
ect of 
fication, may have the practical eff separating species really 
osely allied, and is at the best but an ae ex aga 
- Catamus (Eucalamus, Anuri) TH: ov..—Stans, 
sp. 
acaulis, frondibus petiolatis 24-34 eladlibad cirri segment in 
fasciculos 12-15 oppositos v. subalternos li 
Sejunctos quovis fasciculo e phyllis 2-6 conflato digoatis pil inferne 
subtereti-complanato sup i o flaventi-viridi aculeis validis 
t Blume himself (Rumphia, iii., 29. pis bane a subgenus whilst 
reeguel though he peti yan at wrote, under a eta inspiration : — 
d D che aluabl oi res F quelques Palmiors 
bf le m * Su 
+ Arécinées," published in{the 12th vol. ro para wore ed ee 
(Fl, pie sitio.) attach primary value to it. On th {relia ook: 
Ovary j Moral Bh 361.) here Kentia with yey ‘Tits’ bee - 
the reducti 
t Palio Brit. India, 35. - 
