776 DIOECIA HEXANDRIA. Calamus. 
each sitting in a cup composed of two concave sheathing 
bractes, Calyx three-toothed. Coro/ three-parted. Filaments 
six, inserted on the imperforated base of the corol.. Anthers 
incumbent. Pisti/lum none, a small three-lobed gland occu- 
pies its place. 
6. C. rudentus, Willd. ii, 203. 
- Seandent. Leaves flagelliferous; leaflets numerous, equi- 
distant, uniform, Male spadix super-decompound. 
Palma juncus albus. Rumph, Amb, v. t. 53. 
A native of the Moluccas, from thence introduced into the 
Botanic garden in 1798, where in thirteen years it blossomed 
for the first time, when it had attained to the length of 
thirty feet, and its general thickness, when deprived of the 
sheaths of the leaves, was that of a very stout walking cane ; 
the joints are smooth, and from eight to twelve inches long. 
Leaves alternate, as in the genus, Leaflets numerous, 
equi-distant, and equally arranged on each side of the peti- 
_ ole, uniform ; margins armed with minute spinulz, pointing 
“forward, and the chief nerves here and there with a stiff 
spinous bristle; about two feet long, and about an inch 
broad. Petioles armed with a few, short, recurved spines on 
the exterior part of the under side, and many smaller straight 
ones on the upper; from eight to ten feet long, besides its 
terminal, ‘drooping, armed whip, which is not much shorter 
_ than the body, or foliferous parts. Sheaths armed with 
Slender spines disposed in belts. Male spadices from the 
sheath 1s of the petioles, supra-decompound. Spathes numer- 
ous, armed with very small, short, straight spines. Calys, 
corol and anes, exactly as in the other apeolee 
7. C. verus. Willd. ii, 203. 
~Scandent. Leaves - flagelliferous, Leaflets” ‘numerous, 
equi-distant, uniform, three-nerved + ; stipes dreadfully armed 
with innumerable — ensiform —_ — peent 
‘oblong. 
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