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42. (32) C. angustifolius* (n. sp.) spinis vaginarum paucis 

 aculeis plurimis interspersis, aculeis petiolorum solitariis 

 crebris sparsis, inter pinnas inferiores dorsalibus uncinatis 

 ventralibus dentiformibus, pinnis confertis linearibus (long. 

 8-10 uncialibus lat. 3-4 linealibus) carina et venis 2 la- 

 teralibus utrinque setigeris, spathae extimse aculeis istis va- 

 ginarum similibus, rostro inermi dimidio breviore. 



Hab. — Malacca Province. Matayan name, Rotang Ghit- 

 tah. 



Descr.t — A rather more slender species than the preceding. 

 Sheaths thickly armed with unequal, short, flat, scattered, solitary 

 thorns. Leaves 5-5^ feet in length. Petiole puckered transversely 

 at the base; below the pinnae 3-4 inches long, piano or concavo- 

 convex, armed on both faces, especially the under, with scattered, un- 

 equal, short, straight or curved thorns ; in the pinniferous part 

 angular-convex, lower face with hooked palmate prickles, upper with 

 scattered small straight prickles. Pinna equidistant, very numerous, 

 very narrow, 8-10 inches long, 3-4 lines broad, tapered into a long 

 bristle, upper face with one central carina, and two lateral carinulae 



* I am inclined to place near this a very distinct species of Calamus, lately re- 

 ceived from my collector E. Fernandez, with the name Rotang Pajare, and which 

 by it excessive armature and degree of fasciculation of the pinnae, differs from all 

 the others I have yet met with. The following is a description of it : — 



Stem with the sheaths about an inch in diameter. SheatJis with very oblique 

 mouths, excessively armed with the usual seriate thorns, of which some series are 

 very large, others much smaller, some almost bristle-shaped. The larger ones de- 

 flexed ; general colour of the older ones blackish from a whitish base. Petiole 

 below the pinnae about 2 feet long, much channelled towards the base, much 

 armed with stout, straight, unequal thorns, of these the lowermost are like those 

 of the sheaths, and exist on the ventral surface; above they are stout, subulate, 

 but much shorter, and are confined to the dorsum and margins. In the pinniferous 

 part they are hooked, and confined to the same part, towards the flagellus they 

 become palmate. Pinna very numerous in large sub-opposite distant fascicles, 

 linear-lanceolate, 1 foot long, 8-9 lines broad, acuminate, with 5 bristle-bearing 

 carina? above, underneath smooth, apex generally bristle-tufted. Length of leaf 

 exclusive of the flagellus about 10-11 feet. 



t Specimens : a complete upper part of a male plant in flower. 



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