Calamus.'] clxiii. palmed. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 459 



beueath, petiole long stoutly armed, sheatli excessively armed with large 

 seriate straight or deflexed spines and scattered short ones. Miq. Palm. 

 Archip. Ind. 17, with fig. C. Fernandezii, H. Wendl. m Kerchov. Palm. 

 236. Dffimonorops fasciculatus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 330 ; Walp. 

 Ann. iii. 480, v. 829 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 101.— Rotang Pajare, Griff, in 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 89 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 95. 



Maiaooa, Fernandez, Oxley. — Disthib. Banca ? 



Stem with the sheaths about 1 in. diarc. Leaves 10-11 ft. long exclusive of the 

 long flagellum ; leaflets 1 ft. by f in. ; petiole about 2 ft. ; its lower part armed 

 like the sheath ; sheath with a very oblique mouth. — Bescript. from Griffith. 



Gkoup XII. See p. 438. 



64. C> Martianus, 5ecc. mss. — C. pamcu.latus,'Ka,rt. Hist. Nat. Palm, 

 iii. 334 (not of;_Eoxb.). 



Pknang ; Oaudiehaudj. 



Stem scandent. Leaflets 4-5 in., equidistant, alternate, lanceolate, tip shortly 

 acuminate and bristly 7-9-oostate, margins and surfaces unarmed, petiole very short, 

 rachis and slender flagellum armed witli short spines, sheath with a short obliquely 

 truncate ochrea. ifale spadw decompound, lower spathes subterete faintly 2-keeled 

 and rachis armed with short scattered spines, upper unarmed, spikes slender spreading 

 equalling or twice as long as their spathes. — Description from Martins, neither 

 Beccari nor have X seen specimens. — J.D.S. 



65. C> spatliulatus, Becc. mss. ; leaflets very few alternate distant 

 uppermost pair connate at the base elliptic obtuse convex above, 

 costsB 5-9 and margins quite smooth, petiole very short and slender, 

 rachis Copiously armed with large solitary and 2-3-nate recurved black- 

 tipped spines, sheath flagelliferons elongate cylindric copiously armed with 

 uniform short straight conical-based spines, fem. spadix slender flagel- 

 liferons, spathes slender terete armed with short hooked spines, fruiting 

 calyx pedicelliform short contracted sessile, base broadly truncate, fruit 

 (young) long-beaked very pale. 



Malacca, Lohh, Hervey. 



Stem scandent; very slender. Leaves probably 2-3 ft. long; leaflets 4-7 by 

 3-2^ in., coriaceous, shining above, base acute, cross-nervules very many and clos" ; 

 petiole and rachis subterete, flagellum very slender ; sheath as thick as the fore- 

 finger, thickly coriaceous, pale, smooth between the short flattened subseriate spines, 

 flagellum very stout. Fem. spadix long, slender, with distant branches which are 

 adoate to the rachis far above the slender closely appressed spathes ; spathule of 

 branches tubercled i in. long; spikes 1-lJ in., spreading and recurved ; spathellules 

 very short. Fruit (young) i in. long, shortly oblong or ellipsoid with a long 

 cylindric beak ; scales very pale straw-cold., faintly channelled. 



Var. robusta, Becc. j spadix much larger, very stout. — Perak, Geelong.Malacca, 

 King's Collector (7136). 



66. C. insiffnls, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 58 ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 69 ; leaflets few distant alternate uppermost pair connate at the 

 base elliptic-oblong or -oblanceolate cuspidately subacute convex 7-9-costate 

 margins thickened recurved and both surfaces quite smooth, rachis slender 

 and terete petiole shortly verjr sparingly prickly, sheathlong slender 

 polished very sparingly armed with tubercular spines or conical tubercles. 

 Mart. Hist Nat. Palm. iii. 338 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 488, v. 831 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. iii. 128. 



