
5. CALAMUS FASCJCULATUS: caudice scandente gracili; vaginae pet ioli et rhacheos ecirrosae albido-furfura-
ceorum aculeis e basi crassa subulatis longis rectis seriatis sparsisve; pinnis fasciculato-aggregatis subquadrifariis lineari-
lanceolatis a cutis (saepe apice bifidis) margine nervisque utrinque crebre setulosis, subtus albido-Jurfuraceis; spadicis
lo r i f e r i decompositi aculeis minoribus reduncis; spathis imis bicarinatis carinis aculeatis, superior ¡bus ecarinatis crebrius
aculeatis; masc. spiculis brevibus recurvis, corolla calyce triplo longiore, foern. rectiusculis (subbipoll.); fructibus globosis
vertice acutis chloroleucis (Pisi magn.), or th os licit is 17 v. 18. Tab. 116 .f i g . IV. (C. ex tens us) et VI.
CALAMUS FASC1CULATUS, Roxb. Flor. Ind. IIL .p . 779. Kunth. Enum. DI. p. 208. Griff, in Calc. Journ. V. p. 52.
CALAMUS PSEUDO-ROTANQ, Mart, in edit, priore p. 209. Kunth. 1. c. p. 207. Griff. 1. c. p. 42.
Frequens in Bengaliae bambusetis, e. g. prope Cuttak, a Ganjatn versus Austrum a R o x b u r g h io noti inventus,
B u r a -B e t bengaiice. Prope Umboburi m. Januario fructiferam legit et C. ex te n s i nomine, quo in tab. nostra exstat,
destgnavit B u c h a n a n H am ilto n ; ad Moalmyne in Martabania, ad Jluvium Iratcaddi, prope rupee Pinyi in Pegu:
W a llic h List. n. 8608. In Pinang: idem ». 8611.
ICON. EX PL. Tab. 116. Fig. IY. Pars superior spadicis lorifera cum fructibus immaluris, secundum specimen Hamiitonii. Additar bacca m. a. - Fig. VI. Fructus
nonnulli in ninnilo, ni. n. 2. Fruotas m. a., orlhostichis infcrne 18, superne 17. 3. Alius a., orthostichis 1& — 4. 5. Nucleus ab ulraque facie, 61 6. alius, rcseota papilla
ombryostega, m. n. — In ¡cono Roxburghiana (n. 1191.) albumen aequabile hinc umbilicatum exhibetar.
ADNOTATIO. Calami e t Doemouoropis, generimi affinium, species, extricatn difficillimae, ob inateriac pennriam e t raritatem
hac nostra aetate vix possimi art is lege componi e t distingui; nihilosecius jam eo aliquid proticere existimavimus, si omnium, quorum
compotes sumus, fructunm icones nostro libro insereremus. Has igitur in tabulis 116. 175. 176. et. Z.xxi. conspiciendas praebemns, ceterum
lectorem ad specicrum synopsin in calce operis amandantes.
VI. K O R T H A L S I A .
BLUME Rumphia I t 1836. p. 166. t. 130. 157. — Calamosaous GRIFF, in Calc. . Journ. V. 1845. p. 22.
POLYGAMO-DIOECA. S p a d ix com p o sito -ram o su s , rh a c h i r am isq u e s p a t h i s ta b u lo s is in c om p le tis v a g in a tis . F l o r e s
in a i u e n t i s in tr a b r a e t e a i n sq u am a e fo rm em e t b r a c t e o l a m s . s p a t h e l l u l a m c u p u la e fo rm em v illo sam s o l i t a r i i .
MASC. C a ly x trifid u s . C o r o l l a p ro fo n d e tr ip a rti ta . S t am in a s e x , f i l a m e n t i s b a s i c o n n a tis , a n t u e r i s lin e a r ib u s su b sa -
g itta ti8 . P i s t i l l i ru d iiu e n tum . FOÈM. C a ly x m a ris . C o r o l l a tu b u lo s a , trifid a. S tam in a s e x ( a u t pi u r a : BL.), f ilam e n t
i s in a n n u lum fau c i co ro llae a ltiu s in s e r tum co n n a tis , a n t h e r i s e ffoetis. O v a rium u n ilo c u la re ( a u t iu c om p le te tr ilo c u la re ? ) ,
o v u li s c re c tis . S t y l u s lo n g iu s cu lu s . S t i g m a t a b rev ia , co n n ata . B a c c a m o n o sp e rm a , sq u am is r e tr o r s is lo ric a ta . A lb um e n
rum in a tum . Em b ry o v a g u s .
Ca u d e x calamosus, saepe elongatus alteque scandens, vaginis persistentibus obductus. F r o n d e s pinnatae; v a g inae
in o c r e am (Introd. §. 57.) producine longam, tubulosam vel scaphoideam, pro emittenda juniore fronde verticaliter
hiantem; p in n is cuneatis aut subtrapezoideis plurinerviis reduplicatis, an/ice irregulariter dentatis vel erosis; r h a c h i in
cirrum aculeatum extensa. S p a d i c e s later ales (in K . poi v sla ch v a non ex ala frondis completae, sed ex ala J olii tubolosi.
Cfr. Introd. p. c x r iu . et Tab. Z. x i i i .) , s p a t h i s coriaceis distichis ratnos simplices vel ramulosos promentibus, basi
spathatos. A m e n ta squamis arete imbricatis. S p a th e llu la e saepe in villum quasi solutae. F lo r e s rubelli aut nibello-
testacei. ,
1. KORTHALSIA POLYSTACHYA. Tab. m . Fig. t e t Tab. z. xni.
K. vagina cylindrtca inermi, ocrea brevi cylindrica sublruncata, petiolo per brevi, ■■rhachi cirrifera uncis semiverti-
cillatis ; pinnis coriaceis pettolulatis inaequaliter trapezoideis longe cuneatis, marginibus ant ids quam postici subduplo brevio-
ribus eroso-detihculatis, subtus glaucis; spadice (masculo) duplicato-ramoso inermi; amentis in pedicello bispatheUato e sputila
exserto gracilibus (4 — 8") subglabris (spalhellularum villo subdelitescente), squamis imis vacuis; calyce obtuso corolla
triplo breviore.
CALAMOSAOUS P O L Y STA C H YU S , Griff, in litt. 1846.
C a u d e x digitum minimum crassus. V a g in a e arctae, cylindricae, coriaceae, dense nervosae, ocrea brevi, 1 — 8
fin. alta, subhorizontaliter truncaia aut in facie dorsali bifida, margine extenuato cibato. P e t io l i paucas lin. longi, dorso
convexuli, intus obtuse trifaciales. R h a c h is 12-15 poll., passim aculeis 2—4 confluentibus reduncis. Cirrus 10—12 poll,
longus, aculeis similibus sed minoribus et frequentioribus. P in n a e 7— 12 in petiolulis 3 — 5 lin., 5—6 poll, longae,
1 ^'/s latae, trapezoideae, sed inaequaliter nimirum marginibus 2 posticis duplo longioribus et in cuneum longum conniventi
bus, anticis eroso- acute denticulatis, coriaceae, supra nitidae subtus glaucescentes, plurinerviae, nervo medio supra prominente.
Tomentum pulverulent urn fuscum in vaginae ore et petiolo inox delabi tur. S p a d ix l y —2-pedalis, e folio vaginali
brevi (! cfr. Tab. z.xm. Introd. p. cxvm.), spa th is distichis, 2 - I poll., ore bine brevifissis vaginatus. R am i e bis spathis
aut simplices et in amenta abeuntes, aut iterum similiter spathati et instructi ramulis amentiferis, patuli. Amenta solum
mascula visa in p e d u n c u lo poi I icari spathella una alterave obvoluto gracilia, 4—8 poll, longa, crassi lie (floribus non com-
putatis) vix pennae scriptoriae, sursum curvata, basi squamis vacuis. B ra c t e a e squamaeformcs, div. y(„ lato-ovatae ob-
tusae, concavae, nervis convergentibus sat conspicuis, imo latere cohaerentes, uniflorae. S p a th e l lu l a cupularis, brevis,
utrinque in villum fulvum nitidum densum soluta, maxima parte inter bracteas et calyces delitescens. C a ly x rubello-
fiiscus, cylindraceo - cupularis, in lobos lato-ovatos obtusos nervosos ad medium usque séctus jy § s lin. altus. C o r o l l a
Tab.172.
1 HADMApolystachya. i .S I P A fruticans.