Calamus. DIOECIA HEXANDRIA, 775 
ed on the outside. Calyx of the female or rather, female 
hermaphrodite, .Perianth turbinate, ribbed ; mouth three- 
toothed, by the swelling of the germ it splits into three por- 
tions, and in this manner may be seen adhering with the co- 
rol, to the ripe berries. Corol three-cleft; divisions ovate- 
_ lanceolate, twice as long as the calyx, permanent. Filaments 
six, very broad, and inserted into the base of the coro]. . 4n- 
thers filiform, and seemingly abortive. Germ above, oval. 
Styles short. Stigma three-cleft; divisions revolute, glan- 
dular on the inside, Berry round, pointed, of the size of a 
cherry. 
5. C, latifolius. Roxb. : 
Scandent. Leaves flagelliferous ; lpafetei ina few remote 
- fascicles, of three or four each, broad, lanceolar, many-nerv- 
ed, smooth, convex above. 
Korak Bet of the natives of Chittagong, where it is indige- 
nous and runs over trees to an immense length, When 
freed from the sheaths of the leaves it is about as thick asa 
slender walking cane. Plants introduced by Mr. W. Rox- 
burgh, in 1801, into the Botanic garden, flowered for the first. 
time in November and December 1809, isouintes had at- 
tained to the height of about forty feet. 
Spines numerous on the stems, sub-verticilled, very gas 
flat and divaricate. On the flagelli fascicled and recurved. 
Leaves alternate, pinnate, from. six to twelve feet long in- 
cluding the whip or flagelli, which terminates the‘common 
petioles asin many of Rumphius’s figures ; and the leaf of his 
Palma juncus equestris, vol. v. t. 56. is tolerably like that of 
my plant, but their size is very different, Leaves in seven 
or eight remote facicles, of three or four each, broad-lance- 
<< olate, very erect, mapy-nerved, smooth on both sides; with 
= the margins triflingly spinous-dentate, and the upper surface 
always convex, from ten to eighteen inches long, and from 
2 three to.six broad, Mate. Spadix supra-decompound ; all 
the divisions bifarious. Flowers small, of a greenish yellow, 
