42 The Palms of British East India. 



C. Rotang.* But it differs from Roxburgh's drawing of that 

 species in the arming of the petioles and sheaths, the spines 

 being solitary and long, not mere aculei, in the shape of 

 the leaves, which are more linear, in the corolla, which ap- 

 pears to be of the same length as the calyx, and the fruit 

 which is pisiform, not ovate. It cannot be referred to 

 C. Pseudo-Rotang of Martius,f because that is described 



* lllustr. p. 396. 



f C. Pseudo-Rotang, aculeis vaginarum et petiolorum albido-tomentosorum 

 subulatis rectis, pinnis lineari-lanceolatis fasciculato-aggregatis, spathis aculeis 

 reduncis armatis, baccis pisiformibus apice breviter rostratis.* 



C. Pseudo-Rotang. Mart. Palmes, p. 209. t. 116./. 6. 



Hab. — Throughout India in wooded places. 



Martius, whose description I subjoin, states that this differs chiefly from C. 

 Rotang by the broader fasciculate pinnae, the whitish tomentum of the petiole and 

 the straight aculei, half an inch or an inch long, spreading or recurved, and the 

 smaller, globose, shortly beaked fruits. It agrees in armature and fruit with C. 

 Royleanus, from which it differs chiefly in the fasciculate pinnae, and the tomen- 

 tose petioles. This last character however is (perhaps) a doubtful one, and depen- 

 dent on the degree of exposure of the part to external agencies. I am more- 

 over in possession of a specimen I believe from Assam, which I am disposed to 

 consider Roxburgh's C. Rotang, in which, the younger petioles, and especially 

 the sheaths, are covered with a brown tomentum. 



" Calamus Pseudo-Rotang : caudice scandente ; frondium ecirrosarum pinnis 

 lineari-lanceolatis, fasciculato — aggregatis, aculeis vaginarum rhachiumque al- 

 bido-tomentosarum subulatis rectis, spatharum lororumque reduncis ; spadicibus 

 composito-ramosis, abortivis loriformibus ; baccis globosis (magnitudine Pisi.J 



Differt a Calamo Rotang praesertim pinnis fasciculatis latioribus, rhacheos to- 

 mento albido-fuscidulo et aculeis rectis (unguem ad pollicemlongis) patentibus vel 

 reversis, baccis minoribus globosis, apice breviter rostratis. Squamae baccarum 

 testaceo-lutescentes, imo margine exarido ferrugineae. Nucleus fere dimidiato- 

 globosus, hinc convexus, leviter gyroso-tuberculatus, inde planiusculus atque in 

 areolam profunde depressus. Embryo basilaris. Albumen cartilagineum ae- 

 quabile. 



Crescit per vastam India e orientalis plagam, locis sylvestribus e. gr. in Coro- 

 mandelia : ad Moalmyne in Martabania, adfluvium lrawaddi, prope rupes Pin- 

 gyi in Pegu." Martius. 



I add Martius's character, etc. of another Indian species of this intricate part of 

 the genus. 



" Calamus Guruba, Hamilton : caudice scandente ; frondium ecirosarum pin- 

 nis aeguidistantibus concinnis linearibus acutis, rhachibus ferrugineovillosis, 



* Character e Martio. 



