ORD. XLIX. TRIPETALOIDE. 
(From tres, three, and petalum, a petal) having three petals, 
CALAMUS ROTANG. | ROTANG CANE, 
Sanguis draconis, Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. e. fructibus hujus arboris 
maxime desumitur. 
SYNONYMA. Palmijuncus. Draco. Rumph. Herb. Amb. tom. 
_ 5. p. 114. tab. 58. f. 1. — Dsierena: OB caging eae Exot. 
p. 552. 
Class Hexandria. Ord. Monogynia, 7 Lin, Gen. Plant. 436. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 6-phyllus. Cor, 0. _ Bacca.exarida, i-sperma, 
retrorsum imbricata. ‘ + ; 
_ THIS tree may be considered. as a 2 scandent kind of palm: the 
lower part of the stem, to the extent of two or three fathoms, is 
strong, erect, hollow, jointed, and beset with numerous spines ; 
afterwards it takes a horizontal direction, and ‘overruns the neigh- 
bouring trees to the distance of fifty or even one hundred feet: 
the leaves are several feet long, and composed of numerous pinnz, 
which meaey a foot, long, narrow, sword-shaped, and at the 
