Bit Bone Sameera et 
Calamus. | PALME. 52] 
fugaceously brown-scurfy and armed below with a single row of 
short, sharp, recurved blackish thorns ; the sheaths green, glabrous, 
sparingly and shortly thorny, sending out from their front a long 
whip-like recurved-thorny tendril or the inflorescence ; pinne 
2 interruptly approximate, 5-7 in. long, 3-7-nerved and trans- 
versely veined, above bristly on the 3 or 5 principal nerves, very 
long and bristly acuminate, entire or inconspicuously bristly-ciliate ; 
spadices arising from the front of the sheath, drooping, elongate and 
slender, terminating in a recurved thorny tendril; spathes tubular, 
with an acuminate limb, glabrous, sparingly recurved-thorny, 
green, the partial spathes short-tubular, acuminate, unarmed ; spa- 
thules almost conform to the spathes, but smaller, not imbricate ; 
ealyx cupular, 3-toothed ; corolla 3-lobed, 3 times longer than the 
ealyx, the base thick fleshy ; stamens inserted at the mouth of the 
corolla; ovary-rudiment 3-toothed ; drupes ¢ in. long-elliptical to 
elliptically globular, apiculate, supported by the indurated stalk-like 
perianth, straw-coloured ; scales trapezoid, bluntish, straw-coloured, 
with a very narrow brownish margin, slightly biconvex with a very 
deep longitudinal furrow ; seed irregularly wrinkled. 
Has.—Forests of Chittagong—Fr. March. 
HaB.—Tenasserim (or Andamans ?). 
z.—An evergreen, extensive, scandent rat- 
10. C. paradoxus, K t rat 
fan palm, ‘all parts” glabrous, the sheathed stems 1-2 in. in 
