Calamus. dioecia hexandria. 777 



Paliiia juncus veriis angustif'olius. Rnmph. Amh, v. t. 54. 

 /.2. 



A native of Amboyna, &c. In the Botanic garden are 

 many plants of this species, brought from the Molucca Is- 

 lands in 1798, wliere in twelve years they began to blossom, 

 and in that time their length was under thirty feet; and the 

 ratan, when cleaned, about as thick as the little finger, with 

 joints from six to eight inches long. In this the whole of the 

 petioles, particularly toward the base, are more armed than 

 in any other species 1 have yet seen, with flat, thin, elastic, 

 very sharp, tortoise-shell coloured spines of all sizes, from 

 a line to two inches long. 



8. C. extensus. R. 



Scandent. Leaves flagelliferous; leaflets alternate, remote, 

 equi-distant, narrow-Ianceolar. Spines in belts, slender. 

 Berries spherical. 



Dou-gullar the vernacular name in Silliet, where it is indi- 

 genous, and is of great extent, say two to three hundred 

 yards; when cleaned toward the base, it is not thicker than a 

 man's fore-finger, but as thick as the wrist toward the apex. 

 The length of the joint is from six to twelve inches. 



9. C. quinquenervins. R. 



Scandent. Leaves flagelliferous; leaflets few, remote, 

 equidistant, lanceolar, five-nerved. Spines distinct, (ew, 

 short and strong; spadix decompound. 



H?nnur-gullar the vernacular name in Silhet, where this 

 species is found, running over trees, to a great extent ; the 

 ratan when cleaned is about as thick as a man's finger 

 throughout, and the joints from six to eight inches long. 



10. C. Rotanff. Willd. ii. 202. 



Scandent. Leaflets solitary, equi-distant, sublinear-Ian- 

 ceolate ; sheaths flagelliferous. 

 Sans. Vetra, vetus. 

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