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CALAMUS ROTANG. 
ROTANG CANE. 
* 
Sanguis draconis, Pharm. <Lond. &f Edinb. e fru&ibus hujus arboris 
maxime defumitur. 
STNONTMJ. 
Palmijuncus Draco. Rumph. Herb. Jmb. torn. 
Diierenang. Kxmpfir, Am am. E 
5. p. 114. tab. 58. f. 1. 
. P- S5 2 ' 
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v 
C/tf/r Hexandria. Qrd. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 436. 
xot. 
E/T. Gen. Cb. 
Cal. 6-phyllus. 
C 
or.o. 
.Bacca exarida., i-fperma, 
retrorfum imbficata. 
THIS tree may be confidered 
as a 
ent kind of palm 
: the 
lower part of the ftem, to the extent of two or three fathoms, is 
itrong, ered, hollow, jointed, and beiet with numerous fpines j after- 
wards it takes a horizontal direction, and mrpminc the neighbouring; 
diftance of fifty or ieven one hundred feet : the 
feveral feet long, and eompofed of numerous pinnae, which are nearly 
a foot long, narrow, fword-fhaped, and at the edges ferrated with 
fpinous teeth : the flowers are produced in fpikes, which feparate into 
long fpreading branches : the calyx is divided into fix perfiftent leafks, 
three exterior and three interior; the former are very fhort and pointed, 
"*"' '"""" xt ng, concave, rigid, and unite clofely, fo as commonly 
ments are 
the inner parts of the flower : it has 
fi 
thefil 
pillary, and furnifhed with round anther 
the 
ft 
germen is roundifh, placed above the infertion of the calyx, and the 
ilyle is trifid, filiform, twifted in a fpiral manner, and terminated by 
fnnple ftig 
th 
fru 
ound, one-celled 
is fomewhat larger than that of a filb 
ed with regular inverted obtuie 
fcales, and contains.a red xeiinous pulp, which foon becomes dry : th 
feed is round and flefhy. It is a native of the Eaft Indies, where it 
commonly grows in woods near rivers, and has long fupplied Europe 
with walking-canes, which have ufually been imported by the Dutch. 
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