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spikelets on each side, and terminate in a small, angular, tail-like ap- 
pendix. The spikelets are 7 to 12 cm long, otherwise as already described 
(l. c.). 
The type specimen of C. trispermus (Merrill 161/5, Herb. Manila) differs from 
that collected by Loher only in the more elongate spikelets; while the discrepancies 
which may be noted in the descriptions of the leaves of the two, are due to the 
fact that the leaf of Loher’s specimen is one from the upper part of a full-grown 
plant, where the leaves have almost equidistant leaflets; while the leaf of Merrill’s 
specimen was a non-cirriferous one, probably from the lower part of the stem, or 
that of a young plant, where apparently the leaflets are approximate in pairs. 
Calamus microcarpus Becc. in Records Bot. Surv. India 2: 213 et in Ann. 
Bot. Gard. Calc. 1 1 : tab. 218. 
This species, described by me from Vidal 3952, has been again collected by 
Loher, (Herb. Kew. ), at Montalban, Province of Rizal, Luzon, in 1905, and again 
in Mindanao, Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, by Mrs. Mary Strong Clemens, in 
October, 1907. 
An entire leaf of Loher’s specimen measures 1.1 m in the pinniferous 
part, has a rather long petiole, and terminates in a long, rather slender 
cirrus, which is armed with half whorls of very acuminate claws. The 
intermediate leaflets are 25 to 30 cm long, 14 to 15 mm broad, and are 
very distinctly approximate in several groups; they have the mid-costa 
very prominent, but the side nerves are not so strong as in Yidal’s speci- 
men, are quite smooth on the under surface, and have only a few spinules 
on a nerve on each side of the mid-costa above ; the margins are minutely 
and appressedly spinulous. (In Vidal’s type specimen the leaflets have 
rigid bristles on 3 nerves above, and the margins are spreadingly spinul- 
ous.) The spadix is 55 cm in length; the spathes are conspicuously 
inflated, and the upper ones not prickly. The fruits are ovoid, 8 mm 
long (without the perianth) and 6 mm broad, otherwise as already 
described. 
Mrs. Clemens’ specimen has a spadix apparently longer and more 
robust that those collected by Loher and Vidal, and the fruits are also 
slightly larger. In fact, in Mrs. Clemens’ specimens, the fruits, when 
completely mature, are almost globular, or subobovoid-globular, with a 
short obtuse and relatively large beak, 7 mm through, and 10 mm in 
length, not including the small perianth which is distinctly pedicelliform. 
The seed is globular, slightly depressed and 6 mm broad, otherwise as 
already described. 
Calamus m icrosphaerion Becc. in Perkins Fragm. FI. Philip. (1904) 45 et in 
Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 1 1 : tab. 201/. 
I consider as belonging to this species a sterile specimen, collected by W. I. 
Hutchinson in the Moro Province, Mindanao, in July, 1906. (For. Bur. No. 1/818). 
N. v. pudlus. 
Calamus Diepen horsti i (Miq.) var. exulans Becc. var. nov. 
This possesses a great likeness to some Malayan forms in the spinescence of the 
leaf-sheaths, in the extraordinary length of the spadices and in all other principal 
characteristics; it differs only in the leaflets, which are without bristles on the 
