CLVI. PALMACE.E. 
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[Calamus. 
light brown, edge darker. Hab. Mountain forests, Selangor, Menu- 
ang Casing (Kloss). Perak, Thaiping Hills (all collectors). 
(37) C. neglectus Becc. in Hook. fil. F.B.I. vi. 458; Ann. Bot. 
Card. Calc. xi. 416, pi. 182; Suppl. 100, pi. 56. 
Leaf flagellate; leaflets linear-lanceolate, 6 in. long, -5 in. wide, 
close set (only the top of leaf seen). Spadix female, i ft. long, 
stout, Spathes with short strong claws with swollen bases 4 in a 
line on the back of the short limb; spathels with few claws and 
very short ones in upper part, branches rather stout, lowest 6 in. 
long. Spikes in young fruit 3 in. long, rather thick. Fruits dis¬ 
tichous distant ovoid-elliptic mucronate, -6 in. long, straw-colour, 
red brown. Seed deeply pitted and tubercled. Hab. Malacca 
(Griffith). Selangor, Kwala Lumpur. 
This plant is apparently rare or perhaps overlooked and is but little known. 
(38) C. Oxleyanus Teysm. Binn. Cat. PI. Hort. Bogor. 1996, 
p. 75; Ridl. Mai. ii. 208. Rotan Pajare Griff, Palms of Bril. Ind. 
98. C. Fernandezi Wendl. in Kerchove Les Palmiers, 236; C. diftusus 
Becc. in Hook. fil. F.B.I. vi. 447; Ridl. Mat. ii. 209. 
Stems about 20 ft. long, -5 in. through; sheaths dark green 
with close-set thorns scattered and in bands 2 in. long and less, 
dark green, base yellow. Leaves 4 to 5 ft. long; petioles 6 in. 
long covered with flat spines; leaflets in fascicles of 5 to 8 pairs 
distant, 8 to 12 in. long, *5 in. wide; flagellum 3 ft. long. Male 
spadix stout, 2 ft. long, branches 6 to 7 in. long with many rather 
stout spikes 2 in. long. Spathes tubular, lowest 3 in. long, limb 
lanceolate acuminate, i in. long. Flowers distant. Female spadi.x 
much larger, 3 ft. long, and stouter. Fruit globose, *5 in. long, 
.yellow with brown margin. Hab. Lowland forests. Singapore, 
BukitTimah; Toas. Johor, Gunong Pulai; Batu Pahat. Malacca 
(Griffith). 
(39) C. longispatha Ridl. Mai. ii. 209; Bccc. .1 nn. Bol. Card. 
Calc, xi; .ippendix, 134. 
A large stout rattan. Leaves very large; petioles -5 in. through, 
four-angled, edge with short thorns, back with hooks; leaflets remote 
ensiform acute, 26 in. long, 75 in. wide, tip only bristly. Spadix 
female very stout, 8 ft. long; peduncle thorny, wood}^ thick. 
Spikes 2 in. long, thick. Spathes large, the lowest 18 in. long 
covered with short black-tipped hooks. Fruit fusiform, -5 in. 
long, scales yellow, edges dark. Hab. Mountain forests. Selangor, 
15th mile on the Semangkok Pass road (Ridley). 
I think it better to exclude the Perak plants I added formerly to this 
species until 1 can examine them again. 
(40) C. pallidus Becc. in Hook. fil. F.B.I. vi. 457; Ann. Bot. 
Card. Calc. xi. 447, pi. 200. 
Stem stout, green, *5 in. through; sheaths vath irregular short 
thick thorns in short rows. Leaves sub-sessile, dr3dng light green; 
