4 5 8 ANNALS OP TJÍE ROYAL I30T4NIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. UtiifOriUS
gquarroee or not veiy adprcssed, in 15 series, shining, straw-coloured, not distinctly
chaunclled along the middle, sometimes slightly depressed towards the point, this
somewhat elongate, reddisli-hrown; margins ercsely toothed, ¡¿eed irregularly globular
7 mm. long, deeply and coarsely pitted on the back, with a deep narrow chalazal
fovea on the r.jphal side; albumen subruminate or with superficial intrusions of
the integument ; embryo basal.
HABITAT.—Jara. The spccimcns distributed b y Zollinger with No. 2305 (Herb.
Boiss. and Delessert) were gathered on the Mount Ssmiru botweon 300-1,000 m.
above the level of the sea. In the De Candolle Herbarium one specimou with immature
fruit bears the No. 2302. In the Uerbarium at Bruxelles another Zollinger's
specimen witii a male spadix bears tlie No. 1595 and was coiu.'cted in the Botanic
Garden at Buitenzorg.—Javan name "Bandii." Some specimens seat to thp St.
Petersburg Horbarium by Teysmann (and probably cultivated) are labelled " Kotang
Tertas"; and others that I have received from Dr. Treub (cultivated) are mimed
" n o è Karok rok." One specimen of o leaf with its sheath, collected by Dr.
Warburg in Sumhawa (Herb, Berol.) at 1,300 m., apparently belongs to C. vnifarim.
OBSIÌEVATIOUS.—Distiriguished in the group by the sheaths armed with scattered
acicular bulbous spines ; cirriferous leaves with remote sub equidistant rather largo
lanceolate many-costulate leaflets; male spikelets slender; the involucre explanate
subtending and not enveloping its flower; fruiting perianth small pedicelliform; fruit
globose 1 cm. in diam. ; scales subsquarrose not channelled along tho middle ; seed
globular, coarsely pitted; embryo basal.—The affinities are with C. pisicarptts, aftiensiB
and Uidlrungii.
I'LiTE 206.—Calamus unifarius, B. Leaflets (under-surface) witli portion
of the r a c h i s - f r om Zollinger's No. 2305 in Herb. Boiss.; portion of a male spadix
i n flower with an entire pariial iufloiescencc,—from a specimen in St. Petersburg
Herb.; portion of a spadix with immature iruit,—from Zolhnger's No. 2302 in Herb.
DeCand.; portion of a spadix with immature fruit; seeds, one in two halves cut
through the embryo,—from Zollinger's No. 2.305 in Herb. Ue Cand.
CAI r . v i F A R i u s var. PicNTONG Beco, in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. vi, 458 .
Ree. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 212.
DESCRIPTION.—i'tfwai« spadix terminating in a rather elongate flagellifom appendix.
Involucropkorum more or loss distinctly pedicellate, very conapicuously callous at
its axilla.—Other characters as in the type.
HABITAT.—The Nicobar Islands,
specimen of a female spadix with im
Another specimen of this variety
Kamorta, also ia tho Nicobars, by K
forwarded to me a
from where Mr. E. IL Ma<
lature fruit under the nativ
s in the Calcutta Horbari\
r^ in February 1875.
Ì name of "Pentong."
m and was collected at
ONSEHVAIIONS.—Man's specimen of the fruit-spadix is accompanied by a noii-cirriferous
(radical?) leaf; the naked canes are I B - U mm. in diam. wiih internodes about
25 em. long. The surface is vitreous straw-yellow. The iuvolucrophorum is very dist
i n c t l y pedicellate in the basal portion of the female spikelets where also the involucre js
G. subinemis] BECCAEL MONOGKAPH OF THE GKNUS CALAMUS. 459
somewhat stalked or slightly raised above the involucrophorum. The Calcutta specimen
consists of a portion of a spadix with the fruit wanting and of the basal portion
of a leaf with its sheath ; this about 3 cm. in diam., strongly gibbous above and
armed with many light-coloured solitary, short, 5-10 mm. long, acicular, horizontal,
bulbous spines; the petiole reduced to nothing, the lowest pair of leaflets beinginserted
just at tho mouth of the sheath; the first portion of tho rachis flat at
the base and convex upwards in the upper surface whero densely covered with short
straight erect spines and rahlier densely clawed beneath in the middle and at the sides;
the portion of the pinniferous part seen by mo (35 cm. in length) bears 6 leaflets on
each side, which are subequidi.'^tant, subopposite, lanceolate, ahnost equally tapering
towards both ends, subconcolorous, 5-7-costulato; tho mid-costa spiiiulous, especially
near tho base, and the other nerves only occasionally sparingly spinulous above, all
quite naked beneath; the largest leaflets 30 cm. long, 7 cm. broad; the apical part
of tho spadix rather elongate-flagolliform and more or less aculeoUte; the primary
spathos rather densely armed with very small and short subbulbous black-tipped
prickles; the involucrophorum much more like that of the type, being sometimes
almost sessile.
PLATE 207.--Calanius unifarius var. Pentong Becc
radical one); the summit of a spadij
Man's specimen in Herb. Beccari.
Naked cane; portion of a leaf
with immature fruit.—Froni
177. CALAMUS SUBIKEEMIS H.
Ree. Bot. Surv. Ind.
Wendl.,
i, 212.
only in Herb. Kew ; Becc.
DESCEIPTION,—Robust and very probably scandent. Leaf-shcaths 4 em. in diam,,
thick and woody, strongly gibbous above, smooth (not striate or scabrid), altogether
unarmed, light greenish (when dry), fugaciou4y ashy-furfuraceous, obliquely truncate
and naked at the mouth. Ocrea very short (or deciduous ?). Leaves large, cirriferous,
the only one seen by me 2'ó m. long in tho pinniferous part, the cirrus robust
1 m. long, closely armed with half-whorls of robust black-tipped claws; petiole
short (12 cm. long) and robust (15 mm. broad), rounded and unarmed beneath,
flattish and smooth above, margins rather acute, armed with tuberculiform spinules
rachis in its lower thii'd-part armed like tho petiole at the sides with spiny tubercles
and naked beneath along the middle, and upwards beneath at first with remote
solitary claws which becomo geminate and ternate and always more approximate
towards tho base of tho cirrus ; in tho upper surface the rachis is flat and naked
in its first portion, obtusely bifaced in the iutermediate one and almost rounded at
the summit ; petiole, rachis and cirrus glabrous and almost polished, very
indistinctly longitudinally striolafe ; leaflets not very numerous (16-17 on each side),
subequidistant, remote (10-15 cm. apart), alternate or subopposite, elongate-lanceolate,
a good deal narrowed to and strongly plicate at the base, gradually acuminate at
the summit into a densely bristly tip, papyraceous, green, opaque on both surfaces,
slightly paler bcneitth, plicate, many-nerved with 3 distinct acute costae, these furnished
with black spiny bristles above ; beneath all nerves smooth ; transverse veinlets
delicate, rather approximate; margins rather closely and adpressedly ciliate-spinulous;
the largest leaflets, those of the intermediate part, 50-60 cm. long 5-5-Ó.