CLVI. PALMACEJ5. 
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Cera/olobus.] 
chestnut red, scales rhombic, few. //c?6. Common in mountain or 
hill woods. Selangor, Semangkok Pass; Damansara Hill, Kwala 
Lumpur. Perak, Goping (Kunstler); Thaiping Reservoir (Biirkill); 
Bujong Malacca; Gunong Keledang; Kamiming (Machado). 
Dindings, Lumut (Ridley). 
24. CALOSPATHA, Becc. 
Climbing palm, stem rather short. Leaves pinnate; leaflets 
lanceolate acuminate. Female spathes 8^ the outer one not com¬ 
pletely covering the others, oblong, thin, beaked. Calyx in fruit 
short with three points. Corolla longer, very deeply trifid, connate, 
bases of filaments forming a six-rayed cup. Fruit containing 2 or 
3 seeds, globular, not or shortly beaked. Seeds with homogeneous 
albumen. Flowers unknown. Species i. Perak Mountains. 
(i) C. Scortechinii Bccc. Ann. Bot. Card. Calc. xii. (2), p. 17, 
pi. 12. 
Stem rather short. Leaves large, hooks on racliis solitary; 
leaflets lanceolate acuminate, i ft. long, -75 in. wide, sparsely 
bristly. Peduncle fiat, 9 in. long, spines dagger-like, pale brown. 
Spathes 5 to 10, deep cinnamon brown, stiffly papery, oblong, 
shortly sheathing at base, beak long subulate, lowest one 8 in. long, 
I in. wide, tip broad, spines numerous, pale, straight narrow, -25 in. 
long, on keels and beak. Spadi.x short, branchlets short; flowers 
few. Males unknown. Fruit globose, -5 in. through, not beaked 
in my plant, beaked shortly and stoutly in Scortechini's, scales 
in 10 rows, orange, edged brown. Seeds 3, inner face angled, back 
rounded. Hah. Perak (Scortechini); Gunong Keledang at the 
summit (Ridley). 
25 . CALAMUS, Linn. 
Climbing, rarely erect, palms, thorny and spiny, generally uni¬ 
sexual. Leaves pinnate ending in a bare portion armed with hooks 
{PhyUauthectfB) or with flagella from the leaf-sheath with one or 
two sheaths, formed of abortive spadices {MischanthectcB). Inflo¬ 
rescence usually branched, long, slender, pendulous, axillary, with 
tubular sheaths (spathes), the branches with smaller ones (spathels). 
Flower spikes with small distichous flowers, each with a small 
sheath (spathelhile), and an ovate bract. Calyx tubular, 3-lobed. 
Corolla longer. Stamens 6, connate at base. Female flowers 
larger; stigmas 3, recurved. Fruit globose or ellipsoid or turbinate 
scaly; testa pulpy thin. Seed i, globose to oblong. Species about 
200, chiefly Malayan, also African, and all Asia and Australia. 
Bcccari’s invaluable work on this difficult group in the Annals of the 
Botanic Gardens. Calcutta, vol. xi., gives life-sized photographs of herbarium 
specimens of nearly all our species, and should be consulted. 
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