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C.pseudo-rotang, Mart. 1. c. 209, t. 116, f. VI ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. V, 42 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 63 ; Kunth. Enum. III., 207— Wall. Cat. 

 8608, 8611. 



Names. — English : Chair-bottom cane, rattan cane. French : 

 rotang flexible, rotang osier. Bara Bet (Beng.), Pepa (Tel.), 

 Kyein Ka (Burm.), Umba-vetns (Sansk.). 



Stem rather stout, scrambling and climbing. Leaves 2-3 feet 

 longj leaflets many, 4-10 inches long, -l-f inch broad, inequi- 

 distant or fascled, 3-costate, margins and costse beneath spinulose, 

 pale green, rhachis and sheath white-floccose ; rhachis very stout ; 

 petiole short, with scattered, straight -^-Ig- inch long, pale, hardly 

 flattened spines ; sheath and flagelli with scattered, short, hooked 

 spines. Spathes cariaceous, mouth obliquely truncate, flagelli with 

 hooked 2-3-fid claws. Spadix 15 feet long, stout; clothed with 

 long spathes, tip flagelliferous ; branches paniculate, stout, spikes 

 4-5 inches long, lower spathes compressed, with subulate spines, 

 upper prickly. Fruit small, ^-^ inch in diameter, globose, beaked; 

 scales pale yellow, obscurely channelled down the middle. 



Habitat. — Lower Bengal, common in the village Bamboo jungles ; 

 Orissa ; Ganjam ; Chittagong; Mandalay ; Andaman Islands; 

 Penang ; Malay Peninsula ; Cochin China. 



Flowers during the rains. 



Illustration. — Plate CIV. 



14. CALAMUS CONCINNUS, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 332; 

 Kunth Enum, III, 207; Walp. Ann. III. 483, V. 829; Griff, in Calc. Journ- 

 Nat. Hist. V. 49; Palms Brit. Ind. 59 ; Kurz. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 XLIII, II, 214, t. 20. C ; Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 444 ; Brandis,lnd. Trees 

 653; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. India II, 204, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. 

 XI, 81, 210.— Wall Cat. 8607. 



Climbing. Leaflets 30-50 cm. long, 2\-o^ cm. broad, many, 

 subequidistant, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glossy, 4-6 stout nerves 

 on either side of midrib, margins and costas beneath setulose, rhachis 

 and spadix rusty-tomentose, sparingly armed with short, stout, 

 straight, deflexed spines ; male spadix ultra-supra-recompound ; 

 primary spathes elongate-tubular; secondary ones infundibuliform, 

 subscarious, loosely sheathing. Fruiting perianth explanate. Fe- 

 male spadix simply decompound; spikelets 8-12 cm. long, with 

 18-20 distichous flowers on each side. Fruits small, globose, 8-9 

 mm. in diameter. Scales in 18 series, deeply channelled along the 

 middle. 



Habitat. — Tenassei-im. 



15. CALAMUS RIVALIS, Thw. ex Trim, in Journ. Bot. XXIII, 268, 

 (1885); Hooker Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 441 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. IV, 332 ; Becc. in Rec. 

 Bot. Surv. Ind. II, 199 ; Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. XI, 50, 218. 



