ANNALS o r THE ROi'AL BOTANIC GAUDEN. C.U.CUTTA. [C, G o d e f r o y i.
not ciniferous, about 60 cm. long, ovate in outline. Lcaf-sheath ,Uadla very sparingly
prickly in their basbil portion -, petiole 0 ; rachis flattish beneath where armed along
the middle with small solitary black-tipped claws and iii its basal portion with a
few straight small épines at the sides ; in the upper surface tho rachis is acutely
bifaced from a little above the base where more or less prickly; leaflets rather
numerous (15-16 on each side) narrowly lanceolate, a good de.il narrowed to and
acute at, the base, gradually acuminate at the eummit, papyraceous, rather rigid, shining
above, green, slightly paler beneath, the mid-costa rather acute above where provided
chiefly near the base with a few rigid epinules and accompanied on etuili side
by 3-4 secondary nerves ; underneath the mid-ci>sta bristly-spinulous and the
side-nerves naked and sinuous ; transverse veinlets much interrupted but rather
distinct; margins finely spinulous ; the largest leaflets, those a little above the base,
30-35 cm. long, 2'5 cm. broad, those near the mouth of the sheath narrower,
but barely shorter, the others very speedily and gradually decreasing in length
but not in breadth, less acuminate and with a distinct indentation on tlie lower
margin a little below the apex ; the two of tho terminal pair free at the base, 10
-cm. long, 8-12 mm. broad. Mile spadix Female spadix laterally inserted
near the mouth of the leaf-sheath with a distinct axillary calks, slender, flagslliform,
rather rigid and strict, 1'2 m.-l'S m. Inng, with very few and scaall
(4-5) partial inflorescences and termraating in a short minutely clawed flageîlum ;
primary spathes elongate, tubular, closely sheathing, usually decayed and brittle (not
fibrous, at their summit ; the lowest somewhat flattened, with rather acute smooth or
slightly prickly margins and surface; the upper ones more cylindraceous, slightly
enlarged above, armed externally in their attenuated or axial part with small blacktipped
solitary claws ; partial inflorescences erect, inserted just at or near the mouth
of their respective spathes, the lower ones, the largest, 10-12 cm. long with very
few (3-4) spikelets on each side; secondary spathes tubular and infundibuliform,
somewhat angular by pressure, truncate at the mouth, slightly prolonged at one side
into a small triangular point ; spikelets inserted at the mouth of their respective
spathes with a rather distinct axillary callus and its transver.-al rima, patent, arched,
subscorpioid, rather rigid ; the lower ones, the largest, 2-2'5 cm. long with 5-6
slightly assurgent (not perfectly flatly bifarious) flowers on each side ; the upper
ones speedily decreasing in length and number of flowers ; spathels very shorUy
and broadly infundibuliform, truncate and entire ; involucrophorum flat, disciform,
almost horizontally subtended by its own spathel and inserted at the base of the
one above ; involucre flat, disciform, obsoîetely 3-toothed ; areola of the neuter
flower very'depressed, linear. Female flowers very small, about 2 mm. long. Fruiluj
perianth very shortly pedicel! if or m, the calyx flat and callous at the b.ise ; tho corolla
one-tliird longer than the calyx. Fruit sphceric, absut 12 mm. in diam., not beaked,
mamfiiillate at its vertex; scales straw-yellow with a narrowly reddish-brown margin,
shining, faintly channelled along the middle.
HABITAT.—Lower Cocliinchina, where discovered by M. M. Godefroy-Leboeuf, 19th
J u l y 1879, on the flooled banks of the Great Lake near Siem Reap, (tierb. Kew).
OBBEBVATIOSS.—The specimens examined had only female spadices, whence all the
fruits had fallen away, and of these only one, a detached and immature one, was
C. Rotang.'] BECCABI. MONOGRAPH OF THE GE.NUS CALAMUS. 269
preserved with the seed, where, however, the nature of the alb\imen cannot exactly be
recognized. Supposing that the seed be with homogentous alhumon, I have placed
this near C. tenuis, which ifi much resembles, differing, however, in its totally
epotiolate leaves ; but it also apparently approaches C. Dicpenhorstii, which, however,
belongs to a group where the seed is deeply ruminated.
PLATE 96.—Calamus Godefroyi Beec. Portion of a sheathed stem with an entire
female spadix ; bwer portion of a leaf (upper surface) ; summit of a leaf (under
' surface) ; fragments of the fruit.—From the authentic specimen in the Ilerbarium at
Kew.
79. CALAMUS ROTANG Linn, bp, PI. 1st edit. 325 and 2nd edit, 463 (the Ceylon
plant only and excl. syn. Hort. Malub. and Herb. Amhoin.); N. L.
Burm. Fl. Ind. 84; Iloutt. Nat. Hist, ii, 4, 445; Willd. Sp. PI. ii,
202 (esci, syn. Lour.); Lam. lllustr. t. 770, f. 1; Roem. et Scliult.
Syst. Veget. vii, 2, 11122 lexcl, all cit. but Liun. and Willd.); Koxb.
Fl. lod. iii, 777; Mart. Hist. Nat. Paloj. iii, (1st edit.) 208 and 3;i4,
t . 116, f. 8 and t. zxxii, f. xii ; Blume Rumphia iii, 33; Walp.
Ann. iii, 484 and v, 830; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. in, 117; Gamble Man.
Ind. Timbers, 423; Hook. f. Fl. But. Ind. vi, 417; Becc. in Kec.
Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, ¿06.
C. Roxburgiiii Gri£E in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist, v, 43 and Palms Brit. Ind.
55, t. cxcv A (under C. fasciculatus) and t. cxcii ^by misprint cxii) ;
Thw. Enum. Plant. Zeyi. 330.
C. monoecus Roxb. Hort. Bong. 73 ex Ind. Kew. Suppl. L
C. monoicua Roxb. Fl. Ind. 783; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii (1st edit.), 209
and 334 (excl. desci. of Wallich No. 8604?); Griff, in Cale. Joum.
Nat. Hist. V, 43 and Palms Brit. Ind. 58; Kunth Enum. PI. iii,
208; Walp. Ann. iii, 484 and v, 830.
C. Scipionuvi Lam. (in part) Encycl. Bot. 304 (excl. syn. Lour, and Rheede).
Arundo lioiang Zeijlanioa spinosissima, major fruetihus rotundis, etc, J. Burm.
Thes. Zeyl. 36; Linu. Fl. Zeyl. 209, 468; Herni. Mus. Zeyl. 59.
Arundo nucifera Rotang dicta, fructa spaàieci colorii striis purpurei« venuste
tesseIhto, Pluk. Almag. 53 (excl. syn. Clus.).
Phcenicoseorpinrus s. Meliolropium Palmites spinosum Pluk. Pliytogr. t. 106, f.
1-2 (excl. Mai'Cgr.).
Anmdo Rotang dieta Pison. Ind. Orient. Mant. 188.
Anmdo Indica versicolor flexilis, C. Bauh. Pin. 18, IV; J. Bauh, Hist. Plant,
ii. 4»9 ; Raj. Hiac. Plant, ii. 1277.
DESCRIPTION.—High scandent, rather slender. Sheathed stem 8-16 mm. in diam.
Leaf-sheath gibbous above, glabrous, moie or less armed with straight, obliquely inserted,