NOTES ON PHILIPPINE PALMS, II. 
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Calamus Merrill ii Becc. in Webbia 1 (1905) 67 et in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 
1 1 : tab. 167. 
To this species is referable a fine fruiting specimen with an entire spadix 
collected by Loher at Montalban, Province of Rizal, Luzon, July, 1905, (No. 7076 
in Herb. Kew.). 
Of this specimen the sheathed stem is 6 to 7 cm in diameter. The 
fruiting spadix is robust, nodding, 1.3 m long, including a terminal, tail- 
like, flattened, subulate appendix, which is formed of several tightly 
sheathing, smooth, or slightly prickly spathes ; it is divided into 8 gradu- 
ally diminishing, spreading, and arched partial inflorescences, of which 
the largest (which are also the lowest) are 35 to 40 cm in length. The 
lowest spathe is strongly flattened, 3 to 3.5 cm broad, two-edged (the 
edges sharp and without spines), 16 to 17 cm long, very tightly sheathing, 
slightly obliquely truncate at the mouth, and very sparingly armed with 
a few straight small spines; the other primary spathes are tubular, more 
or less longitudinally split, obliquely truncate at the mouth, prolonged 
above at one side into an acuminate, dorsally keeled point, and bearing 
irregularly distributed, small, broad-based, and subbulbous horizontal 
prickles. The largest partial inflorescences carry 10 to 13 spikelets on 
each side and terminate in a small smooth tail-like appendix ; the 
secondary spathes are truncate at the mouth, and prolonged at one side 
into a broad triangular point; they are either quite smooth or have at 
most one or two rudimentary or tuberculiform prickles. The spikelets 
are 8 to 9 cm in length, slightly flattened, 8 mm broad between the 
spathels (not taking into account the flowers). Fruit spherical, with a 
rather thick and blunt beak on the top, about 12 mm in diameter. Leaves 
as already described (in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta l. c.) ; the rachis in 
the lower and intermediate parts is rather deeply channelled above ; leaflets 
3 to 3.5 cm apart on each side, with bristles which may reach 3 cm in 
length. 
The type specimens of C. Merrillii were Merrill 1893 from Bosoboso, Province 
Rizal, Luzon, male plant, and Loher 1361 (Herb. Kew.), in fruit. 
Calamus Merrittianus Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 233. 
I refer to this species specimens collected at Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, 
Mindanao, by Mrs. Mary Strong Clemens, in June, 1907, (Nos. 1112 and 1121 } ) ; 
they differ, however, from the type plant found by Merritt in Mindoko, (For. Bur. 
3912), in the spathes being less densely set with prickles; therefore presenting a 
transitional form between C. Merrittianus and C. Merrillii. Perhaps C. Merrit- 
tianus is only a geographical variety of C. Merrillii. 
Calamus grandifolius Becc. sp. nov. 
Robustus et scandens, caudice vaginato 4 cm diametro ; vagina tenuiter 
lignosa, densissime spinis nigris tenuissimis, 25-30 mm longis, armata; 
ocrea breviter ligulaeformi, hispida. Folia ampla, 1.7 m in parte pin- 
nifera longa, cirro robusto valde aculeato terminata; petiolo robusto, 
