780 DIOECIA HEXANDRIA. Calamus. 
Leaves and petioles as in C. Rotang,butmorearmed. Leaf- 
* lets collected into fascicles of two, three, or four, on the oppo- 
site sides of the stipes, with a vacant space of considerable 
extent between; they are broader considerably than in C. 
Rotang, scarcely so long, and armed with spinous bristles on 
the edges and both sides of the nerves. Mate, Flagella, 
spathes, spadix, perianth, corol, and stamens, as in the former 
species, FEMALE, Perianth, corol abortive; stamens and 
pistillum asin C, Rotang, Berries as in the former, but small. 
The stems divested of the sheaths of the leaves, are about 
as thick as a man’s fore-finger, and employed for walking 
canes like those of the ground ratan, Rhapis flabelliformis. 
12, C. polygamus. R. 
Scandent, Spines sub-verticled. Sheaths flagelliferous. 
Inferior leaflets in remote fascicles of three or four, above 
_ single and alternate, or opposite, all linear, with a few bristles 
on the margins and nerves underneath. Male and herma- 
phrodite flowers on the same supra-decompound spadix. 
Hoodoom Bet of the people of Chittagong, where it is in- 
digenous, and a most extensive rambler ; the general thick- 
ness when cleaned is that of a stout iilictng cane. Its 
growth is exceeding slow, for in ten years it had acquired a 
stem of only five feet in length, and the leaves from ten to — 
twelve more. 
13. C. tenuius, R, 
- Polygamous, scandent. Leaves pinnate; leaflets nume- 
rous, solitary, equi-distant, alternate, three-nerved, linear. 
Sheaths flagelliferous, Spadix decompound. Hermaphro- 
dite calyx and corol urceolate. 
Bandhari Bet of the inhabitants of Chittagong, where it is 
indigenous, It is a beautiful, delicate species; when di- 
vested of the sheaths of the leaves, and cleaned, it is not 
thicker than a common quill, and of the colour of the com- 
mon ratan. Flowering time, the rainy season. | 
