S02 ANNALS OF THE ItOrAI, BOTANIC G.AEDEN, CAI.OTJTTA. \C. uiminaiis
t o the Mah Jlamsn narrowly oblong, 4 mm. in length! the calyi s t r o n g ly
Btriately reined, tnbubr, with 3 short yery broad teeth ; segments of the corolla
shining and smooth eiternilly, twice as long as tho e j y x . Female spadù somewhat
shorter than tho male one, 60-80 cm. long, with 4-5 partial inllorescences which are
short and broad, the largest (the lowest) 6-T cm. long, with 6-7 spikelets on
each side • secondary spathe. as in the male spadii ; spikelets sligl.tly arched, horizontal
or somewhat doflexad, attached just at the month of their own spatho
with a distinct aiillaiy callus, 2-3 cm, long, and with 6-10 flowers on each side ;
snathe's shortly tubnlar at tho base, suddenly enlarged into a spreading broad con.
cave limb acnte at one side; inTolncrophotam concave, with a short Umb, inserted
laterally almost entirely outside its own spathel, at the base of the one above;
inyolncre cupnlar, entire; areola of the nenter flower lanate, relatively largo and
sharply bordered. Temab pwert ovoid, about 3 mm. long, horizontally attached ; the
calvi strongly striately veined with 3 broad acute lobes; corolla with acnte and
p o l i h e d segment! one-third longer tnan the calyx. NeuUt pwers sliglitly smaller than
t h e iettile "ones. Fruiting ferimth not podicelliform. Fruit very broadly ovate or subsphaîtic,
ronnded at both ends, but topped by a short beak, 13-13 mm. long
(includine the beak), 9-10 mm. broad; scales in 18 series, ditty yellowish, not very
shining "superficially channelled along the middle, with a narrow datk-brown
intramarginal line and scarious erosely toothed margins and tip. Seed irtegnlarly
llobose with rather smooth surface, very convex on the back and with a slightly
depressed chalazal fovea on the raphal aide; albumen equable; embryo basal.
HABITAT.—Australia ; Queensland; Endeavour Eiver, AUan CanningMm as from
Tllartius- Bloomfield Eiver, Rockingham Bay, Dalhehl in Herb. Becc. from F. v.
Mueller' Kussell Bivet, 17. S.aer in H. Becc. from F. v. Mueller ; Cairns at
L m e r u l i g a , Warbr, No. 19504 in Hetb. Berol. ; Mt. Cook near Cooktown and
Cairns, I . Diet, No. 8293, 8480 in Herb. Beccali.
OBSEHVATIOS.—This is a very characteristic species, easily distinguished from any
other so far as we know at present, by its short leaves with few irregularly
truncate and prsemorse leaflets »vhich resembles those of some species of Ptydutftrma.
PLATE 56—Calamus caryotoides Alt. Ounrt. An intermediate portion of the
„ l , n t with a ' s p a d i x bearing ripe fruit; an entire female spadii with very young
f r u i t ; the apes of another spadii with female flowers; seeds—From Warburg's
specimens No. 19504 in Herb. Berol.
44 CALASIDB VIMKALIB Willd. Sp. PI. ii, (1799), 203 (not of Keinw. in
Mart.) ; Lam. Eue. Bot. vi, 306 ; Sees, Cyclop. No. 9 ; Eoem. &
Rchnlt. Syst. Veg. vii, 2", 1328 (excl. all cit. except Herb, Amboin. pi.
56 f.' 2, A. B.); Noes v. Esenbeck Plant. Oft. t. A. B. (ex. Mart.)
Blume Rnmphia iii, 45 excl. C. mimlà /3 prottntm Bl. and eicl. C,
„•»¡»ai» i ampiuB Mart, (this is reduced by Mart, himself, 1. c., p.
336 under C. luroenm, to C. Seinwardtii)-, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, m,
2 0 n ' ( l . t edit.), only as to tho plate in the Herb. Amb. and p.
336 under C. Hroimù-, Becc. in Bee. Hot. Surv. Ind. ii, i03.
C. üiminalis] beocarl mono&eaph op t h e genus calamds. 203
(7. Boialtff vat. E Linn., Sp. PI., 2nd edit., p. 463 (partly).
0. buroimia Mart. Hist, Nat. Palm, iii, 336, as to the plate in flerb. Amb.
not as to the plant from Bum; Walp. Ann. iii, 486, and V, 830; Miq
Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 121, and De Palmis, 27; Becc. Malesia, i, 88.
C. Htorali, Bl. Eumphia, iii, 43; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii, 333; Walp.
Ann. iii, 183, and v, 8 3 0 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 114, and De
Palmis, 27; Toysm. Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. 75; Kurz Veg. Bangka in
Natuurk. Tijds. Ned. Indie, xivii (1864), 218.
C. graeilie Boxb. ? Zolling. Syst. Verzeich., 79 and exsicc. No. 2884.
PalmijuneuB vimimlia Eumph. Herb. Amb. T, pi. 55, f. 2 A. B,
DESCRIPTION.—Scandent, of moderate size; sheathed stem 2-3 cm. in diam.
naked canes 15-30 mm. in diam., shining, vitreous and slraw-colooted on the
surface. Zeaf-sheatb' occasionally flagellifetous, gibbous above, fugacioualy mealyfurfuraceoua;
when young armed with straight pale flat spines, which are broad
and concave beneath at the base, 1-3 cm. long, almost horizontal or slightly
deflesed, scattered or not very regularly arranged into more or less approximate
oblique series. Leaf-sheath fugelU very long, with the lowest spathes flattened
and sparingly spinous at the margins, clawed upwards. Leaves 1-1-25 m. long, not
cirriferons; pelic.lo very short, rounded beneath, flattish above and armed at tho
sides with straight horizontal spines, rachis bifaced above, slightly rounded or
flatfish below, where armed, chiefly towards the apex, with strong straight spines,
•which are 1-4 cm. long, broad at tho base; very acuminate, solitary, geminate
or ternate, spreading, horizontal or deflexed ; leaflets very many, pointing difieront
ways, more or less grouped in distant fascicles of 2-4 (more rarely 5-6) on
each ' side of the rachis, the leaflets near the apex more regularly arranged and
sometimes almost equidistant and on one piano; all narrowly lanceolate, attenuate
at the base, gradually acuminate at the apex, 15-30 cm, long l - 2 ' 5 cm.
broad, green, almost shining, about the same colour on both surfaces, with the
mid-cLta acute and spinulous above, this fainter and usually, but not always, naked
beneath- secondary nerves weak, naked or sometimes sparingly spinulous beneath or
on both surfaces; margins acute, tegnlai-ly and closely ciliate-aculeolate. Male spada
opoo-ite to the leaf, very long, decompound and ending in a long slender clawed
flalllum- partial infloresconces many, diffuse, bearing 7-8 alternate spikelets on
e a l side'; primary spathes narrow, elongate-tubnlar, cylindrical, coriaceous, closely
sheathing, almost horizontally truncate at the mouth and very shortly apiculate at one
side a r ^ d with scattered claws; secondary spathes very narrowly tubulai-mfundibuh-
, „ rm 10-15 mm. long, truncate, entire, apiculate and ciliolate at the month, glabrous,
„ n a m e d - spikelets very slender, filiform, 10-20 cm. long, horizontal or deflexed
r c r d a t ' t h e mouth of their own spathe; spathels 30-35 in " " I ' P ' t ^.
TeiT small tuhulose at the base, suddenly enlarged into a broad infundibnliform
entire, laterally acute limb; each spathel with a secondary very small
subscornioid spikelet, which is composed of very few (4-8) small bi-seriate approximate
flowers, rarely more; secondary spathels bracteiform, menibranonB, broadly
ovate; involucre formed by two very small membranous, broadly ovate, acute
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