4& OS BECK'S VOYAGE, 



fkin off our hands and faces. This little Pahit 

 tree is 



Caryota (urcns Linn. c ) frondibus blpinnails\ 

 aculcatis, foliolis cuneiformibus, rotundato pra- 

 morfis. I did not fee the parts of fructifica- 

 tion, and therefore am not quite certain of the 

 genus. Thtfrondes are, as in the Caryota, bi- 

 pinnated and whitifh below : the leaves are 

 oppofite, almoft oval, plicated ; the upper 

 margin as it Were lacerated : the petioli are co- 

 vered with many oppofite, hamated fpines, not 

 only at the beginning of the foliola, but even 

 at the fecond and third pair of them. 



Another fort of little Palm trees d {Calamus 

 Rotang Linn.) was likewife in our road. The 

 Jlem was without branches,, had a crown at 

 top, and was every where befet with ftraight 

 fpines. This is the true Indian cane, which 

 was not vifible on the outfide ; but the bark 

 being taken off, difcovered the fmooth flick, 

 which has no marks of fpines on the bark, 

 and is exactly like thofe which the Dutch fell 

 to us, keeping this matter very fecret, left 

 travellers going by mould take as many canes 

 as they want out of thefe woods. Sumatra is 

 faid to be the place where mod of thefe flicks 



c Javanica. Ofbeck. d Palma Bacillus. Ofteck. 



grow. 



