444 CLXiii. VALTAEM. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [Calamus. 



costsB beneath armed with, rigid bristles, the central alone sparsely 

 setulose above, rachis armed beneath and at the margins with short 

 hooked scattered spines, sheath densely armed with scattered flat spines, 

 lower spathe densely armed upper and spathels finely scabrid, spadices very 

 long. 



Pebak; ScortechirU (468'') ; Goping, King's Collector (8171). 



A lofty climber ; stem with the sheaths 1-1^ in. diam. Leaves 2-2J ft. ; larger 

 leaflets 18 by 1 in., upper much shorter and shortly connate at the base. Lower 

 spathe elongate-tubular, with short spines on the outer faces, upper scabrid and 

 scurfy with a lacerate mouth. Spadias with the partial inflorescences very long, 

 hearing many recurved spikelets. Fruit small, pisiform, long-beaked. — Well 

 characterized by the armature of the sheath, the naked margins of the leaflets, and 

 the scabridity of a portion of the spadix. 



17. C.vitnina,lis,Willd. 8p.Pl. ii.1. 203 ; var. pasoicuiatus, .Becc.mra.; 

 stem rather stout, leaflets many inequidistant or fascicled 3-costate, margins 

 and oostsB beneath spinulose, floccose rachis and petiole with scattered 

 long straight spines, sheath and flagelli with scattered short hooked spines, 

 spadix very long clothed with long spathes, tip flagelliferous, branches 

 paniculate, spikes 4-6 in., lower spathes compressed with subulate spines, 

 upper prickly, fruit small globose beaked. C. fasciculatus, Soxh. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 779 (excl. cit. Rheede) ; Kunth Enum. iii. 208 ; Mwrt. Hist. Nat. Palm. 

 iii. 338, t. 116, f. iv. ; Walp. Ann. 488, v. 831 ; Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. V. 52 ; Palms Srit. Ind. 62, t. 195 B {ercl. A. Boxlurghii), t. 190 A, 

 f . ii'. ; Mia. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 127 ; Palm. Archip. Ind. 27 ; Furz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Seng, xliii. ii. 210, t. 27 B ; For. FL ii. S17. 0. extensus. Mart. 

 I. c. iii. 210, Ed. \, partly, t. 116, f. iv. 1 (reduced in Ed. 2 to fasciculatus). 

 C. Pseudo-Eotang, Mart. I. c. 209, Ed. 1, t. 116, f. vi. (reduced in Ed. 2 to 

 fasciculatus) ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 42 ; Palms Prit. Ind. 

 53 ; Kunth Fnum. iii. 207.— Wall. Cat. 8608, 8611. 



Lower Bbngai, Okissa, and the Caenatic, CfliTTAaoNG, Bijbma, the 

 Akdaman Islands and Penaug, Wall. — Disteib. Cochin China. (Of the type 

 Malay Islands.) 



A stout scrambling and climbing species. Leaves 2-3 ft. ; leaflets 4^10 by 

 |-^ in., pale green, young and rachis and sheath white-floceose, petiole short and 

 rachis very stout, spines slender i-li in. long, pale hardly flattened. Spathes 

 coriaceous, mouth obliquely truncate ; flagelli with hooked 2-3-fid claws. Spadix 

 and its spreading branches rather stout, internodes (and truncate spathels) i-J in. 

 Fruit 4-i in. diam. ; scales pale yellow, obscurely channelled down the middle. 



18. C. concinnus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 332; erect or stem- 

 less ?, leaflets many subequidistant linear-lanceolate acuminate glossy 

 above 3-costate, margins and costae beneath setulose, rachis and spadix 

 rusty tomentose sparingly armed with short stout straight deflexed spines, 

 spadix stout decompound, spathes loose coriaceous armed with short spines, 

 secondary lax membranous long acuminate, spathels annular, fruit small 

 globose beaked. Funth Enum. iii. W7 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 48d, v. 829; Griff, 

 in Calc. Jov/m. Nat. Hist. v. 49 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 59 ; Eurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 214, t. 20 C.—Wall. Cat. 8607. 



Tbnassbeim, Wallich ; at Mergui, Uelfer {Kew distrib. 6388, 6394, 6395). 

 Leaflets in the only specimens I have seen 10-18 by l-l^, very shining on both 

 surfaces. Fruit ^ in. diam. 



19. C. florlbundus, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 56 ; Palms 



