774 DIOECTA HEXANDRIA, Calamus. 
- 3. C, erectus, R. 
Shrubby, erect, no flagelli. Leaflets rather remote, equi- 
distant, opposite and alternate, linear-lanceolar. Spines sub- 
verticelled. Spadix compound. Berries oblong. 
- Sun-gotta, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it grows 
with an erect trunk, like the true palms, of about fifteen 
feet in height; when divested of the sheaths, from three to 
four inches in circumference; and the joints from two to 
three inches long. The poorer natives use the seed asa 
substitute for areca, 
4, C. draco. Willd. ii. 203. 
Scandent, destitute of flagelli, dreadfully armed with long 
flattened elastic spines, often in rows and united at the base. 
_ Leaflets alternate, ensiform, spinous, bristled. mete de- 
compound, oblong. 
Palma j = draco. —_— Amb. v. p. 114, t. 58. f. 1. 
good. | : 
sDeiiboadang Kempf. a Exot. 552. 
A native of Sumatra and the Malay Islands. Flowering 
time March and April. ae 
‘Trunk while the plants are young, erect, and then resem- 
ble an elegant, slender palm tree, armed with innumerable 
dark coloured, flattened, elastic spines, often disposed in ob- 
lique rows, with their bases united. By age they become 
scandent, and overrun trees to a great extent. Leaves pimate, 
_ their sheaths and petioles armed as above described. Leaf 
lets single, alternate, ensiform, margins remotely armed with 
stiff, slender bristles, as are also the nerves; from twelve to 
eighteen inches long and about three quarters of an inch 
_ broad. Spadix of the female hermaphrodite inserted by means 
of a short, armed petiole on the mouth of the sheath opposite 
to the leaf, oblong, decompound, resembling a common ob- 
long panicle. Spathes several, one to each of the four or 
five primary ramifications of the spadix, lanceolate, leathery ; 
all smooth except the exterior or lower one which is arm- _ 
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