Calamus. DIOECIA HEXANDRIA, 779 
male, Filaments six, united at the base round the germ. 
Anthers arrow-shaped, abortive. Germ round. Style short, 
three-cleft, divisions or stigmas recurved. Berries round, 
of the size of a small gooseberry, imbricated backward with 
barky scales, one-celled, one-seeded, between the bark and 
the seed there is a considerable portion of whitish juicy pulp 
ofa sharp acid taste, Seed solitary, marked with many irre- 
gular depressions and elevations, and on one side there is a 
large, deep, roundish pit, a little below it near the base is 
lodged the monogotyledonous embryo. 
_ As already observed the full grown-plant, when divested 
of the sheaths of the leaves, resembles so much the common 
ratan of Malacca, that I have scarcely a doubt of their being 
the same ; for that reason the specific name Rotang is adopted 
until we are better acquainted with those figured by Ram- 
phius. 
ll. C. fasciculaius. Roxb. 
Scandent. Leaflets in many fascicles, ensiform, margins spi- 
nous, bristly. Sheaths flagelliferous, 
Tsjeru-tsjurel, Rheed, Mal, xii. p. 121, t, 64, agrees in its 
foliage better with this than with the former. — 
Palma juncus viminalis. Rumph. Herb. Amb, ab Veit. 
55. f. 2. agrees pretty well with this species, but not his de- 
criptiony : 
Sans, Umba-vetus. 
Hind, aud Beng. Bura-bet. 
With ©. Rotangy this is a native of thickets, and woods 
all over Bengal, Cuttack, and many other places; though I ne- 
ver saw it to the southward of Ganjam. Flowering see the 
rainy season. 
Stem as in C. Rotang but thicker, when young, viz. from 
four to eight feet high, they are erect, at which time they 
resemble a beautiful palm on a small scale ; when longer they 
lean in search of support, and finally climb over trees, and 
bushes like the other species, and are PUNT: extensive. 
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