130 AJîNAIiS OF THE EOYil- BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA.
Fruiting pmantk explauate. Fruit ovoid, 13-15 mm. long, 1
18 series, straw-yellow, strongly gibbous, narrowly chaauelled.
alveolate; allmmeii equable; embryo basal.
British New Guinea.
;m. broad. Soaka in
Seed ovoid, coarsely
198. C. Hartmannii Becc,—Erect, 2-5-3 m. high. Zeaoes non-cirri£erous, about
60 cm. long including the pRtiole, this 15 cm. long and feebly armed with hooked
prickles. Leaflets not very numerous, inequidistant, usually in pairs on each side of
the rachis, narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, slightly concave-convox, 3-5.costulate,
smooth on both surfaces, the largest U cm, long, 3 cm, broad; transverse veinlets,
Tory sharp and continuoas across the blade, margins inconspicuunsly spinalous,
terminal leaflet bilobed.
British New Guinea.
199. (?. discolor Mart.—Not very liigh, scandenfc. Leaf-skealhs flagelliferous
densely bristly. Leaves non-ciriiferous, about 1 m. in length ; petiole lo cm. long,
rachis rusty fnrfuraceous, armed with solitary approximate claws. Leaflets very
numerous, spreading, pectinate, very closely and regularly set, green above, conspicuously
white beneath, unicostate, linear-lanceolate, 20-30 cm. long, la-24 mm.
broad, with long bristles on 3 nerves above and on the mid-coaia beneath ; mai-gins
conspicuously ciliate. Female-spaiiz l-1-l-á m. !ong, erect, narrowly panicled, flagelliferous
at its summit, with a few alternate partial inflorescences, these arcliedsubscorpioid,
twice branched in their lower part; primary spathes split longitudinally
and lacerate at the summit; spikelets with irregularly arranged flowers. Fruit
small (not seen ripe), somewhat resembling that of the species of tke group of
C. sipho7iospathus.
The Philippines.
200. G. acidus Becc.—Erect. Leaf-sheaths densely armed witli slender spines.
Fem-ile sfikeleis 2-2-5 cm. long with two collateral assurgent series of 6 iiowcrs each;
involucre distinctly cupular. Fi-uit very closely packed, ovate, distinctly conicaliy
beaked 15-17 mm. long, 10 mm. broad. Seed flattened, enveloped by an acid fleshy
integument and with a distinct chalazal fovea.
Celebes.
201. 0. iZalaCCella) Harmandi Pierre.—Apparently non-scandent. Leaf-sheathi
open on the ventral side, armed with long seriate spines. Leaves apparently uoqciiriferous.
Leaflets numerous, equidistant, linear-eusiform, 30-40 i. long, 10-15
mm. broad, tricostulate, the mid-costa strong and bristly and the side cost®
slender and spinulous above, underneath all nerves quite smooth. Female spadix strict,
with a few superposed partial inflorescences which are spicifonn, cylindraceous, as
thick as a man's finger, about 10 cm. long, covered all round with pluriseriate
flowers. Fruiting perianth explanate. Fruit obovoid, 1 cm. long, very (
Scales in 18 series, convex, not channelled. Seed pisiform; albumen equable.
Cochin-Chiua.
I I I . - D E T A I L B D D E S C E I P T I O J S r S O F S P E C I E S -
CALAMOS l i » " -
Calamus eructcis Roxb. FI, IeiI. iii, 774; Mart. Hist. Palm, iii, 213
(first edit.) and 332; Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 3y and
Palms Brit. Ind. 43, pi. cxc A. £. i (as C. acanlhospathus)] Walp. Ann.
iii, 483 and v, 829; Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xliii, pt. 2,
209, pi. xxiii and xxiv (excl. 0. lonffisetus Grifi.) and For. FI. Brit.
Burma ii, 516, and Eep. Veg. Pegu, 90; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. vi,
438 Cexd. 0. schizospathiia)-, Becc. in Ree. Bot. Surv, Ind. ii, 197.
C. macrocarpus Griff. in Mart. Hisf. Nat. Palm. 333, t. 176 f. s and t. Zxviii,
f. xxiv; Grifi Palms Brit, Ind. 40, pi. cJxxxvi A, figs. i-ii ; Walp.
Ann. iii, 484 and v, 830.
C. erecttts viaerocarpm Becc. in Hook, f. FI. Brit. Ind., vi, 439.
C. coìlinus Grifi, in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist, v, 31 and Palms Brit. Ind. 39
l'excl. descr. leaf), t. clxxxv (spadix only) ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii,
332; Walp. Ann. iii, 482 and v, 839.
C. ereetvs vai?. ^ collina Becc. in Hook, f. FI. Brit. Ind. vi, p. 439.
DESCRIPTION.—Tufted, gregarious. Slem erect, 4-5 m. high, with intern odes
when divestod of the sheaths 3-4 cm. in diam., green, smooth, 6-10 cm. long. Leafsheaths
not flagelliferous, brOixdly opened on the ventral side (not completely tubular)
and gradually passing into the petiole, densely and irregularly armed "Jcith long, large,
flat and laminar spines. Ocrea very large, in full-grown leaves longitudinally split
on the ventral side into two large oblong auricles (one on each side oE the petiole),
5-7 cm. long, obtuse, densely covered with more or less distinct and transversely
seriate lamellce, and crested with dark, rigid, very numerous, coiiflueut bristles. Leaves
not cirriferous, very large, 3-5 m. in length; petiole sub-cylindric, rigid, erect,
very long, armed with rather remote whorls or half-whorls of straight, 2-3 cm. long
flat, elastic and deflexod spines, which are light at the base and dark-tipped ; intermingled
\vith these are other spines, solitary or disposed iu smaller and incomplete
aeries ; rachis acutely angular and with two flat side-faces above, rounded beneath
where it is armed iu its tirst portion with half-whorled, and near the sumuiit with solitary,
laminar, deflesed, straight, never claw-shaped spines ; leaflets very numerous, palegreen
when dry, nearly shining above, dull and hardly paler beneath, equidistant,
alternate or subopposite, 5-7 cm. apart, elongate-ensif or m or narrowly lanceolate,
subulately acuminate, somewhat alternate and deeply backwardly plicate or doubled at
the base ; their mid-costa stout and raised above, bearing mainly near the apex, on
both surfaces, a few not very long spiny bristles; secondary nerves fine, rather
numerous, inequidistant, not prominent, but frequently very distinct, naked on both
surfaces ; transverse veinlets very fine, crowded and inten-upted ; margins acute,
spinulous-serrate from the middle upwards; the lai-gest leaflets, the mesial, 60-75 cm.
long, 3-5-4 cm. broad, the upper gradually shorter and less acuminate, or almost
ANN. Boy. BOT. GABD. CALCUTTA TOL. X I.