CLVI. PALMACE.E, 
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Calamus.] 
numerous short curved thorns; leaves equidistant, linear, 7 to 
8 in. long, -25 in. wide, 3-nerved, edges and tip bristly, young leaves 
white woolly beneath. Male spadix 3 ft. long, very slender, 
branches few, 6 in. long, branched as in C. ramosissinius but shorter, 
slightly white woolly. Spathes 9 in. long, with a limb g in. long, 
•5 in. wide. Flowers distichous, 12 in a spike. Female spadix 
over 2 ft. long, 3 branches 6 in. long, distant. Spikes flexuous, 
thick, I in. long. Fruit globose, less than 5 in. long, light-brown, 
scales rounded. Hab. Mountain forests, Pahang, Telom. Selangor, 
Bukit Kutu ; Bukit Ilitam. Perak, Bnkit Kapayung (Ridley). 
var. lanata Ridl. Mai. ii. 202. A shorter, more compact plant 
with shorter male spadix, more densely woolly, thorns of spathe 
thick conic, not circular. Female spadix 18 in. long, young fruit 
globose, dark red scales, lanceolate. Hab. Selangor, Semangkok 
Pass, road to the mines (Ridley), Pahang, Gunong Tahan (Haniff). 
Beccari reduces this variety to his C. perakensis. but it is a very different- 
looking plant. He states that the fruit described is that of C. Guruha Roxb., 
a species only known from Assam and Burma, and not known at all in the 
Peninsula. The fruit and male flowers came off the same thicket mass and 
undoubtedly belong to the same plant. 
(27) C. siamensis Becc. Rec. Bot. Siirv. Ind. ii. 203; /Um. Bot. 
Card. Calc. xi. 208, \)\. 59; Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 59, 
p. 216. 
A low bushy rattan about 6 ft. tall. Leaves not flagellate, 
about 3 ft. long, with 80 close-set equidistant narrow lanceolate 
leaflets; midrib with stift' spiniiles; sheaths with many pale spines; 
petioles very short with long spines on the edge, 1-5 in. long, even on 
back of rachis. Male spadix 2 ft. long, lowest spathe with straight 
horizontal spines, stem-portion with hooks, branches 3 to 4 in. 
long, ending in a flagellum 2 ft. long. Flowers crowded. Female 
spadix 7 in. long, the flowers in pairs or solitary. Fruit globose, 
•25 in. through, cream white, scales in about 6 rows, tipped brown. 
Seed orbicular rugose flattened, -25 in. long, not ruminate. Hab. 
Open country in thickets in the north. Kedah, Alor Sta. Perlis, 
Kanga. Sctiil (Ridley). Common here. Distrib. Siam. 
(28) C. concinnus Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii. 208; Becc. A nn. 
Bot. Card. Calc. xi. 219, pi. 60. C. multiramea Ridl. Mat. ii. 202. 
Scandent plant. Leaves large; leaflets numerous linear-lanceo¬ 
late, 3-ribbcd, edge and midril) bristly, 10 to 18 in. long, i to 1-5 in. 
wide; rachis and si>adix rusty-tomentose. Spadix stout, decom¬ 
pound, short. Spathes loose coriaceous, unarmed. Male flowers 
distichous. Female decompound, branches 6 in. long, thick. Fruit 
small, globose, dirty straw-colour, scales with edges toothed. 
Hab. Open country east and north, Pahang River, Kwala Luit. 
Setiil, Bukit Rajah Wang (Ridley). Distrib. Tenasserim. 
(29) C. Lobbianus Becc. in Hook. fil. F.B.l. vi. 462 ; Ann. Bot. 
Card. Calc. xi. 482, pi. 220; Ridl. Mat, ii. 204. 
Stem short, rather thick, not climbing, 3 to 7 ft. long. Sheaths 
