Calamus. dioecia hexandria. 775 



ed on the outside. Calyx of the female or ratherye//m/e 

 hermaphrodite. Perianth turbinate, ribbed ; mouth three- 

 toothed, by the sM^elling- of the germ it splits into three por- 

 tions, and in this manner may be seen adhering with the co- 

 rol, to the ripe berries. Corol tliree-cleft ; rf/umo/js ovate- 

 hinceolate, twice as long as the calyx, permanent. Filaments 

 six, very broad, anti inserted into the base of the corol. jin- 

 thers filiform, and seemingly abortive. Germ above, oval, 

 Stifle>i short. Sti(/ma three-cleft; divisions rcvolute, glan- 

 dular on the inside. Berry round, pointed, of the size of a 

 cherry. 



5. C. lalij'ollus. Roxh. 



Scandent. Leaves flagelliferous ; leaflets in a few remote 

 fascicles, of three or four each, broad, lanceolar, many-nerv- 

 ed, smooth, convex above. 



Korak Bet of the natives of Chittagong, where it is intlige- 

 nous and runs over trees to an immense length. When 

 freed from the sheaths of the leaves it is about as thick as a 

 slender walking cane. Plants introduct-l by Mr. W. Rox- 

 burgh, in 1801, into the Botanic garden, flowered for the first 

 time in November and December 1809, when they had at- 

 tained to the height of about forty feet. 



Spines numerous on the stems, sub-verticilled, very large, 

 flat and divaricate. On the flagelli fascicled and recurved. 

 Leaves alternate, pinnate, from six to twelve feet long in- 

 cluding the whip or flagelli, which terminates the common 

 petioles as in many of Rumphius's figures ; and the leaf of his 

 Palmajuncus equestris, vol. v. t. 56. is tolerably like that of 

 my plant, but their size is very different. Leaves in seven 

 or eight remote facicles, of three or four each, broad-Iance- 

 olafe, very erect, many-nerved, smooth on both sides; with 

 the margins triflingly spinous-dentate, and the upper surface 

 always convex, from ten to eighteen inches long, and from 

 three to six broad. Male. Spadix supra-decompound ; all 

 the divisions bifarious. Flowers small, of a greenish yellow, 



