776 DiOEciA HEXANDRiA. Calitmus. 



each sitting' in a cup composed of two concave sheathing- 

 bractes. Ca/?/^; three-toothed. Coro/ three- parted. Filaments 

 six, inserted on the imperforated base of the corol. AnI Iters 

 incumbent. Pistillum none, a small three-lobed gland occu- 

 pies its place, 



0. C. rudentus. Willd. ii. 203. 



Scandent. Zeaues flagelliferous ; /eo^e/s numerous, equi- 

 distant, imiform. Male spadix super-decompound. 



Palma juncus albus. Rmnph. Amb. v. t, 53. 



A native of the Moluccas, from thence introduced into the 

 Botanic garden in 1798, where in thirteen years it blossomed 

 for the first time, when it had attained to the length of 

 thirty feet, and its general thickness, when deprived of the 

 sheaths of the leaves, was that of a very stout walking cane ; 

 the joints are smooth, and from eight to twelve inches long. 

 Leaves alternate, as in the genus. Leaflets numerous, 

 equi-distant, and equally arranged on each side of the peti- 

 ole, uniform ; margins armed with minute spinulse, pointing- 

 forward, and the chief nerves here and there with a stiff' 

 spinous bristle ; about two feet long, and about an inch 

 broad. Petioles armed with a few, short, recurved spines on 

 the exterior part of the under side, and many smaller straight 

 ones on the upper ; from eight to ten feet long, besides its 

 terminal, drooping, armed whip, which is not much shorter 

 than the body, or foliferous parts. Sheaths armed with 

 slender spines disposed in belts. Male spadices from the 

 sheaths of the petioles, supra-decompound. Spathes numer- 

 ous, armed with very small, short, straight spines. Calyx, 

 corol and s/am?wa, exactly as in the other species. 



7. C. verus. Willd. ii. 203. 



Scandent. Leaves flagelliferous. Leaflets numerous, 

 equi-distant, uniform, three-nerved ; stipes dreadfully armed 

 with imunnerable flat, ensiiorm spines. Spadix panicled, 

 oblong'. 



