Calamus. DIOECIA HEXANDRIA, 78l 
Stems simple, perennial, climbing to a great extent ; the ex- 
tremities inserted in the armed sheaths of the leaves, includ- 
ing these, it is scarcely so thick asacommon ratan. Leaves 
oblong, equally pinnate, nearly two feet long. Leaflets from 
twenty to thirty on each side, equi-distant, alternate, linear 
polished, three-nerved; margins, apices, and nerves bristly; 
six inches Jong, and scarcely half an inch broad at the broad- 
est part. Petioles armed. Flagelli from the sheaths, sim- 
ple, armed, as in the other species. - Spathes numerous, 
_ sheathing, sub-cylindric, one for each division of the spadix, 
even to the pairs of flowers. Spadices occupy the place of 
the flagelli on a few of the spathes, decompound; primary 
branches, four, five, or six, remote, flexuose, with about half 
a dozen alternate, recurvate branches on each side. Herma- 
phrodite and male flowers in alternate pairs, the latter short- 
pedicelled. Maze, Calyx shorter than the corol, unequally 
two, or three-toothed, corol supported on a fleshy gibbous 
receptacle, border two or three-cleft. Filaments four, five, or 
six, Anthers sagittate. HirMAPHRODITE, Calyx and corol 
equal, gibbous, with a contracted, three-toothed mouth. 
filaments six, united in a ring round the lower half of the 
germ; anthers sagittate, large, and seemingly fertile. Germ 
ovate, one-celled, containing three seeds attached to the bot- 
tom of the cell, Style scarcely any; stigma dhawer-ohates -* 
segments rugose and recurvate. 
14, C, pencillaius, R. 
Scandent, Leaflets thirty-four pair, regularly alternate 
except the terminal two, which are united, lanceolate, se- 
ven to nine-nerved; margins entire and smooth, a pencil of — 
bristles from the apex ofeach. Sheaths flagelliferous. _ 
Found by Mr. Roxburgh in the forests of Palo Pinang 
running over trees. It is more slender than the common 
ratan, and less so than the next species, C. eh aye 
15. C. gracilis. R. be Be! 
Scandent, Leaves with from six to ten pair of icat-lan- 
