448 cLxiii. PALMES. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [Calamus. 



Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 117. 0. Boxburghii, Griff: in Calc. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. V. 43 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 55, t. 195 A {under fasciculatus) (and t. 112 

 ? monoicus, Eoxb.) ; Thw. JEnum. 330. 0. monoicus, Boxb. FL Ind. iii. 

 783 ; Mart. I. c. (209, Ed. 1) 334 {excl. deser.) Wall. Cat. n. 8604?; Griff. 

 II. cc. 48 and 58 ; Kunth I. c. 208 ; Walp. II. cc. 484 and 830. 0. scipionum. 

 Lam. {in part) Encycl. vi. 304 {{excl. Syn. Lour. & Bheede). 



The Deccan PBiriNSFi.A and Cetion. 



Stem scandent, very slender. Leaves 2-3 ft. ; leaflets 8-10 by i-| in,, median 

 costa unarmed on both surfaces or armed beneath only, lateral unarmed on both 

 surfaces ; in Madras specimens there is often a strong solitary spine above the base 

 of the leaflet on the midrib beneath i sheath in Madras specimens with horizontally 

 flattened spines. Spadix and its slender tubular spathes unarmed or nearly 

 so. Male fl. biseria,te, but not distichous , densely crowded, |-i in. long ; spathellules 

 acuminate. Fruit |-J in. diam. ; scales with an obscure sometimes discoloured 

 channel, margins not or faintly narrowly discoloured. 



29. C. Brandisiig Beec. mss.; stem slender, leaflets fewfascicled lanceo- 

 late eusiform naked beneath sparsely setose above on the 3 costas, petiole 

 slender with few very long slender straight spines, rachis with long stout 

 solitary straight and recurved spines, sheath armed with solitary or aggre- 

 gate slender flattened straight spines mouth with very long needle-shaped 

 spinules, male spadix elongate shortly flagelliferous with few partial inflo- 

 rescences, spathes narrow tubnlar upper funnel-shaped unarmed embracing 

 the bases of the spikelets, flowers 4-seriate in bud. ' ' 



Tkatancoee; at Courtallam, alt. 3-5000 ft., Brandis. 



1 have seen no specimen of this species, which appears from a photograph to be 

 remarkable for the long straight very slender spicules at the mouth of the leaf- 

 sheath.— J^. B. S. 



30. C> Feanus, Beec. mss. ; stem scandent,, leaflets few remote subequi- 

 distant elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate 7-9-costate, petiole very short and 

 rachis armed with short hooked spines, sheath flagelliferous coriaceous 

 green marbled with black scurfy spots strongly armed with scattered long 

 spreading or deflexed and short stout reflexed spines, male spadix decom- 

 pound erect rigid with 7 partial inflorescences, lower spathe tubular 

 2-keeled mouth compressed keels armed with short stout spines,, upper 

 truncate obliquely, spikelets recurved, fruit broadly ovoid. 



Tenassebim ; alt. 3-5000 ft., L. Fea. 



Stem' scandenb ; internodes ^-^ in. diam. Leaves rather short, about 3 ft. 3 in. 

 long ; sheath J— | in. j ochrea very short, truncate j leaflets 6-8, the larger 8-12 by 

 2-2f in., terminal free. Male spadix 14 in. Fruit about J in. by ^ diam., beak 

 conical acute; scales about 15-seriate, not channelled on the back, where they are 

 opaque and as if pulverulent with a broad rather discoloured band. Seed deeply 

 pitted. — Near acanthospathus, but very distinct by the opaque not channelled scales 

 of the fruit. 



31. C. acanthospathus, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. y. 39 ; 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 50, t. 180 B (excl. A, f. 1) ; leaflets few large inequidis- 

 tant elliptic-lanceolate strongly 5-7-costate usually unarmed on both 

 surfaces, rachis and long petiole very stout scurfy and armed with 

 2-3 series of very stout recurved spines, sheath stout densely armed 

 with long flattened and short stout straight or recurved spines, spadices 

 very stout flagelliferous, peduncle armed with unequal subulate spines, 

 lower spathe very stout tubular compressed with a lanceolate limb, back 

 armgd with conical baaed spines, upper spathes clavate unarmed, partial 



