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HAMTAT.-The Moluccas, at Buru and Amboma. In Burn it r e c c i r a the name
of ' Oodat," in Amboina that of " Da Oawa," at Bonoa and Lolia that of " Rotanff
Oawa. Very much employed for ligatute and reduced into strips for baskets and
other wicker-work.
OISEETATIO»S.-Though generally considered a very doubtful species, it seem, to
, r T " ™ - "P^souted i» a fruiting condition in
^ a t o L V r fig 1 (vol. V) of Rumphius. That this plate really belongs to
t Ca«„ I have little or no doubt from what is said in the explanation of the
above-mentioned plate at p. 114 and on account of the e»clness with whieh that
plate agraes with the description.
0. C™« is very closely allied to 0. e¡u,ríri, from which it differs in the mote
slender rooting stem, in the leaf-sheaths densely spinose, in the slender spadices and
chieay 1„ the not grouped leaflets. In this respeet, as in most characters, 0. Caw^
13 eitremely akin to V. mi,mha,soe. " ,
136. OAi,AMns OTnis Willd. Sp. PI. ii, SOI; Lam. Encycl., vi 306- Rees
Cyclop n. 11; Hoem. et Schult. Syst. vii, 1300 ( p a r t l y - a e é Mart!
Hist Nat. Palm, ill, 340, No. 532 n o t e ) ; Kunth, Enum. Plant ii
204 ( p a r t l y ) ; Blume, liumphia, iii, 61; Martins Hist. Nat. Palm iii'
340 ( n o t 203, Ist edit, and 207, 2nd edit, and excl. t 1 1 3 - 1 2 8 )'
Walp. Ann. iii, 490 and v, 833; Mi,. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 133 and D¡
Palmis 28; H. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm,, 236; Hassk. in Tijdschr.
Nat. Geshied. ix, 172 (according to Sliq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. c ) and
Neuer Schlüssel zu Ramph's Horb. Amb. 101 ( eicl. many .yn )
e. Rotmg , Linn. Sp. Plant. 463,
Palmijmcus epmiri. Humph. Herb. Amh. 110, 56 ( » t o r i l i s l)
D,^CE,PTO».-Soandent, rather slender, not rooting at the lowest „odes.
M b not flagelliferous, rugose, not densely spinuloas. about 1 m. Ion. in
the pinuiferous portion, and terminating in an equally long clawed cirras; leaflets
ebplic-l.nceol.te, acute, few, inequidistant, resembling those o? C. suWre'-
ate, 18-20 cm. long, 3-ä-4-ä cm. broad, famished with many ( 5 ? spinulou",-
of H V ^ ' ^ J ' H ? " f » ' " ™ » ' ' "> E"mphius it grow, on the mountains
Ol H.tu and Hulamul m Amboma, also in the I , l . n d of Bum. Native name ' T o W
Tsjavoni" or simply " Tsjavoni," and more specially " ü t t a laun cana."
0B...VATI0JS._Blume and Martin, have established that the namo of C ,„.tri,
must be applied to that species which Kumnhiu, has described at PI,! 1 • ?
C. Guthbertsonii.'] BECCARI. MONOGEAPH OF THE GEINUS CALAMDB. 359
C. Cawa 131, which name must be doubtless applied to the plate Ivii fig. 1. A. B.
of Rumphiue's work, though any reference in the text is wanting.
The name of C. equestris has been also improperly applied by Willdenow to the
Calamus that afterwards Blume distinguished with the name of C. javensis. The
name of equestris has been made use of by Martiua for C. javcnsk in plates
113 and 128 of his great work, and partly in the description of G. equestris in the
text ( S07 accond edit. ).
In the chapter treating of the Falmijuneus equestris, Rumphius mentions also
another Calamus similar to R. Tsjavoni, but much more robust, which is said to be
common in Circlszee, a small island near Batavia, To thia Calamus Blume (Rumphia
iii, 31) assigned the namo of C. mariiimus, but this is not recognizable, and certainly
it has already been published under another name.
127. CALAMÜS CUTHBBBTSONII BCCC. in Nuovo Giova. Bot. It. xx, ( 1
and in Ree. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 202.
5 ), 179,
DESCKiPTioji.—Slender and probably scandent. Leaf-sheathz Leave»
email, about 25 cm. long, not cirriferous; petiole very slender, flattiah above
with obtuse sides, where armed with a few straight snines, roundish beneath 5
rachis trigonous, fm-furaceous and like the petiole irregularly armed beneath with
scattered claws; leaflets very inequidistant, very few, 9 in all, of which four
are approximate at the summit and the side ones scattered, alternate or subopposite,
10-13 cm. long, 10-13 mm. broad, narrowly lanceolate, rather suddenly narrowed
to the base and from their lower third or fourth part upward gradually longacuminate
into a subulate apes, which is biistly at the sides; the 4 uppermost
shorter and less acuminate than the side ones and the two of the terminal
pair connate up to about the middle ; all are thinly papyraceous, rather rigid,
dull and glabrous on the upper surface, slightly paler and fugaciously rustyfuriuraceous
mainly near the base beneath, with the mid-costa rather acutc in the
upper surface, where it is accompanied on each side by a slender, often indistinct,
secondary nerve, and is occasionally but not always furnished with a few
spinules; beneath, the mid-costa is indistinct and smooth; margins remotely spinulous,
tho lower one in the upper surface bordered with a shining band; transverse
veinlets few, remote, much interrupted. Male spadix Female spadix
short ( not seen entire) rigid, erect, more or less furfuraceous throughout; primary
spathes narrowly tubular at the base, slightly enlarged and loosely sheathing in theu,'
upper part, exsuccous, papyraceous, prolonged at the summit into a triangular point
and sprinkled with a few very small tubercled claws j tho lowermost spathe slightly
flattened, spinulous at the sides; partial inflorescences few, small, erect, pyramidate,
6-7 cm. long with 3-4 distichous slightly arched spikelets on each side; secondary
spathes tubulai--iufuudibuliforni, unarmed, ciliato and truncate at the mouth and
produced at one side into a narrow and subulate point; the largest spikelets, the
lowest, 18-20 mm. long, with 6-8 flowers in all, the upper suddenly shorter and with
very few flowers. Female flowers biseriate, rather remote, not flatly bifarious, all
pointing upwards; spathels tubular-infundibuliform, truncate at the mouth; involucre