Calamus.] oixiii. palmej;. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 453 



Apparently a stout scandent species. Leaflets 12-16 by |-1 in., tips spinelosely 

 oiliate, margins below obscurely acuieolate, pule green, not shining, almost white 

 bi neath, the very distant bristles on the lateral nerves beneath sometimes absent, 

 at others nearly ^ in. long j racbis and petiole pale. Fruit j-J- in. diam., very 

 shortly beaked ; scales snbacute, with fimbriate margins, not channelled j fruiting 

 calyx nearly 3 in. diam. ; petals acute. 



43. C. Gamble!, Beec. mss. ; leaflets as in C. Huegeliomus, but with 

 sKorter scattered briijtles ou tbe 3 oostse of the lower surface and a few on. 

 the upper, fruiting spikes of the spadix recurved, calyx cupular long- 

 pedicelied, lobes very short, fruit globose or broadly obovoid, scales pale, 

 jellow acute deeply channelled. 



NiLG-HlEl HiLls J Malcurti forests, alt. 5000 ft., G-amble. 



A very distinct species differing from Huegeliawus by the longer leaflets, 2-2i ft., 

 the more slender spathellules, longer pedicel of the more campanulate calyx wnich 

 has shorter lobes, and by the pale fruit with deeply channelled scales. — A variety 

 with spherical fruit is mentioned by Beccari. 



Geoup VII. See p. 438. 



44. C. gracilis. Eoxb.Fl. Ind. iii. 781 {excl. Syn. Hort. Mai.) ; leaflets 

 few in opposite groups of 8-5 on each side of the slender racbis elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate 3-7-C08tate, costs very slender more or less setose 

 above, petiole short and raohis and sheath armed with short hooked spines, 

 fem. spadix elongate slender drooping flagelliferous spathes tubular 

 acuminate sparingly spinous, upper unarmed, spathels not imbricate, 

 fruiting calyx sessile shortly cylindric, lobes very short, fruit oblong, scales 

 very pale ripe channelled. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 3:^8 ; Eunth Enum. 

 iii. 209 ; Griff, in Dale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 54 ; Palms Brit I«d.;64, t. 196 ; 

 Walp. Ann iii. 488, v. S'il; Kurz in Journ. As. 800. Beng. xliii. ii. 212, 

 t. SI C ; For. FL. ii. 520. 



• The Khasia Hills, ascending to 4000 ft.; TJppee Assam, Mann. Cachae, 

 Keenan. Chittagon9, Eurz. 



Slender, sciindent; naiied stem not thicker than a quill. Leaves 2-3 {t. ; leaflets 

 5-7 in., margins obscurely bristly except at the tip where the bristles are long ; 

 petiole very short and racbis fugaciously scurfy ; sheaths green, glaljrou^. SpalTies 

 fugaciously brown-scurfy ; spathel-i unarmed. Corolla three times as long as the 

 cnlyx. Fruit f in. long ; scales straw-cold, with or without a narrow brown border ; 

 fruiting calyx pedicelliform. Seed wrinkled.— Descript. chiefly from Kurz. 



45. C. melanacantlius, Mart. Eist. Nat. Palm. iii. 333, t. 116, f. 13 

 {in part) ; leaflets many equidistant membranous linear vrith capillary tips 

 3-costate upper much shorter, shortly setose or naked on the oosise beneath, 

 rachis with a single row of short recurved black spines, sheath with sub- 

 whorled spines, fem. spadix decompound ending in a flagellum, spathes 

 shortly sparsely spinous upper nearly unarmed, fruiting calyx sessile cam- 

 panulate pedicelliform, fruit ellipsoid shortly beaked,, scales very pale 

 channelled, embryo lateral. Kunth Enum. iii. 211 ; Oriff. in Gale Journ. 

 Nat. Eiit. V. 49 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 59 ; Walp. Ann. iii._ 484, v. 830 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 119 ; Palm. Arckip. Ind. 27 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. xliii. ii. 215, t. xx. B.—Wall. Gat. 8606 B. 



I'bnasseeim ; at Chapredong, Wallicli.. 



Scandent. Leaflets 6-13 by i in,, upper 2-3 in., shining, tips sparsely bristly or 

 naked. -Corolla hardly longer than the (fruiting) calyx-lobes. Fruit f in. long, 

 greyish yellow with very narrow brown margins; lobes very short. Albunien 



