Calamus. dioecia hexandria. 779 



male. Filaments six, united at the base round the germ. 

 Anthers arrow-shaped, abortive. Germ round. Stijle short, 

 three-cleft, divisions or stigmas recurved. Berries round, 

 of the size of a small gooseberry, imbricated backward with 

 barky scales, one-celled, one-seeded, between the bark and 

 the seed there is a considerable portion of whitish juicy pulp 

 of a sharp acid taste. Seed solitary, marked with many irre- 

 gular depressions and elevations, and on one side there is a 

 large, deep, roundish pit, a little below it near the base is 

 lodged the monocotyledonous embryo. 



As already observed the full growu-plant, when divested 

 of the sheaths of the leaves, resembles so much the common 

 ratan of Malacca, that I have scarcely a doubt of their being 

 the same ; for that reason the specific name Rotaufj is adopted 

 luitil we are better acquainted with those figured by Rum- 

 phius. 



11. C.J'ascicnlatus. Roxb. 



^candent. Lea flets in many fascicles, ensiform, margins spi- 

 nous, bristly. Sheaths flagelliferous. 



Tsjeru.tsjurel, Rheed. Mai. xii. p. 121. t. G4. agrees in its 

 foliaoe better with this than with the former. 



Palma j uncus viminalis. Ritmph. Herb. Amb. vol. v. t. 

 55. J\ 2. agrees pretty Avell with this species, but not his de- 

 cription. 



Sans. C/inba-vetus. 



Hind, and Benrj. B?<r«-bet. 



With C. Rotamj this is a native of thickets, and Moods 

 all over Bengal, Cuttack, and many other places ; though I ne- 

 ver saw it to the southward of Ganjam. Flowering time, the 

 rainy season. 



Stem as in C. jRo/ow^ but thicker, when young, viz. from 

 four to eight feet high, they are erect, at which time they 

 resemble a beautiful palm on a small scale ; when longer they 

 lean in search of support, and finally climb over trees, and 

 bushes like the other sspecies, and are equally extensive. 



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