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12 flowers on each side; the upper are shorter and bear fewer flowers. 
The spikelets in Loher’s specimen are therefore somewhat more slender, 
and bear a few more flowers than those of Vidal’s No. 938, but are 
otherwise identical with them. 
Calamus Blancoi Kunth Enum. PI. 3 (1841) 595; Becc. in Webbia 1 (1905) 
66, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, 11: t. 64- 
A specimen with a female spadix collected near Zamboanga, Mindanao by 
W. I. Hutchinson (For. Bur. 4819) , July, 1906, does not differ from other specimens 
that I have seen from Luzon and from Leyte; it is therefore apparently a constant 
form, although closely allied to Calamus mollis Blanco. 
Calamus discolor (Mart.) var. negrosensis Becc. var. nov. 
A specimen of a Calamus collected by F. Danao in Negros, apparently belongs 
to a distinct variety of the form which I have recently described in Elmer’s 
“Leaflets” as typical C. discolor. The specimen consists only of the upper part 
of the leaf, and of a few partial inflorescences of a male spadix. There is not 
however all the requisite evidence to prove that this specimen really represents 
the male plant of C. discolor, although the male spadix of the type, and the 
female one of this proposed variety are unknown; the leaf, however, of the plant 
from Negros, with its leaflets white beneath, though endowed with some peculiar- 
ities of its own, leaves little doubt as to its specific indentity with or at least of 
its great affinity to C. discolor. 
It is a higli-elimber. Leaf-rachis rusty-furfuraceous ; leaflets very 
numerous, equidistant, very narrowly linear-lanceolate, broadest at about 
their middle, green above and white beneath, exactly as in the type, 
from which, however, they differ in being smaller, and in having a few 
bristles on the mid-costa above only, while the under surface is sprinkled 
all over, except at the base, with scattered, small, spadiceous, subspiny 
bristles; the largest leaflets, i. e., the medials, are 20 to 22 cm long, 
and 9 to 10 mm broad. Male spadix apparently rather large, with 
several partial inflorescences ; each of these forming rather dense panicles, 
20 to 30 cm long, twice branched, covered with a soft detachable whitish 
scurf on the spathes and spathels; secondary spathes infundibuliform, 
rather loosely sheathing; branches 10 to 12 cm long, or at times less, 
bearing a few gradually decreasing branchlets, which carry 4 to 6 dis- 
tichously arranged spikelets on each side ; the spikelets are inserted at 
the mouth of their respective spathes, are 2 to 3 cm long, flattened, 
comb-like, with perfectly bifarious, horizontal, contiguous flowers; the 
axes of the spikelets are slender, not brittle ; spathes very short, concave, 
apiculate at one side, very strongly and firmly striately veined; involucre 
cupular, obliquely truncate, 2-dentate on the axial side. Flowers small, 
ovoid ; the calyx sharply and firmly striately-veined like the spathes, with 
3 acute teeth. 
Negros, Province of Negros Occidental, Cadiz, For. Bur. 12432 Danao, March 
10, 1908, altitude about 50 m above the sea. N. v. limoran. 
