516 | PALMA, [ Calamus. 
Leaves tendril-bearing; pinne distant, alternately approximate ; 
male flowers in recurved small spikelets or fascicles exserted 
from the spathules : . ; : ‘ : ‘ 
Xx X Lower spathes expanded in a flat elongate 
limb, only at the short base tubular. 
Leaves not tendril-bearing ; pinne! narrow, equidistant ; drupes 
lobular, the size of a pea, the scales straw-coloured with 
lackish-brown borders . : : ‘ ; : : 
%* Flowers usually pedicelled; spathes deciduous, the 
outer one boat-shaped and large; albwmen usually 
C. paradoxus. 
C. Guruba. 
ruminate, 
+ Spathes unarmed or nearly so. 
Leaves not tendril-bearing ; pinne interruptly-approximate, white 
men ; : : ‘ . : . . : . C. hypoleucus. 
+ t Spathes (at least the outermost one) much armed with 
0 S. 
Leaves uniformly green; sheaths and spathes outside fearfully 
armed with flat, glossy, black spines ; drupes globular, the size 
OF a cheery 6 ree a ee a C. grandis. 
1. C. arborescens, Griff.— Danoung.—An evergreen, stolonifer- 
ous, gregarious, erect palm (15—20+ S——12+4—1), much arm- 
broad sharp spines about an inch long, the rachis fugaceously 
whitish scurfy beneath, armed with similar spines as the petiole, but 
these are by 7-5 and upwards, decreasing in number and becoming 
green and glossy above, white below, bristly-ciliate along the 
hile the midrib 
spikes densely imbricate, almost cymbiform-tubular and short, 
. . 
coriaceous ; drupes ovoid, 3-3 in. lon 
the coriaceous somewhat enlarged perianth, l-seeded ; scales unl 
formly brown, with a very narrow, whitish, minutely erose marg™, 
cordate-trapezoid, rounded at the apex, almost biconvex from ® 
longitudinal furrow. : 
Has.—Common in marshy beds of choungs in the moister mixed, and trop! 
cal forests of Pegu—Fr. 0.S.—s.—SS.= SiS, All. 
2. C. erectus, Roxb.—Zicing. —An evergreen, low, ereet, tufted 
truncate ; cal jong 
corolla-lobes 23 lin. long, oblong, concave, somewhat acute, rigidly 
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