518 PALME. [ Calamus. 
spathes shorter, tubular, and unarmed ; spathules similarly shaped, 
but small, not imbricate ; male flowers in very short, curved, disti- 
chous spikelets, exserted from the spathules; bracts ovate, acute, 
almost reflexed; male flowers minute, only about a line 
long ; corolla about twice as long as the calyx; stamens inserted 
at the mouth of the corolla-tube ; drupes globular, sessile with the 
persistent perianth, from the size of a pepper-kernel to that of a 
point, slightly biconvex from a longitudinal furrow; seeds de- 
pressed-globular, irregularly and deeply grooved-wrinkled. 
Has.—Frequent in the mixed forests, especially the lower ones, all over 
Burma from Ava and Chittagong down to Tenasserim and Andaman. islands.— 
Fl. Sept.-Oct. ; Fr. Apr- May.—lL—SS.=SiS All., ete. 
Rewarxs.—The rattan thin, but strong; used for cordage, basket-work, ete. 
4. C. latifolius, Roxb.— Ya-ma-ta.—An_ evergreen, extensive, 
scandent rattan palm, all parts glabrous, the sheathed stems 2- 
3 in. in diameter, the canes up to an inch thick ; leaves 8-12 ft. 
long, pinnate, terminating in a long, whip-like, retrorse-thorned 
tendril, the short petiole armed with a double or single row of short, 
more or less sharp spines, hollowed out at inner base, saccate at 
(the sac unarmed or sparingly and shortly prickly), the sheaths 
quite green, beset with a few excavate thorn-like protuberances OF 
duced, glabrous; male flowers greenish yellow ; ovary-rudimen 
small, 3-lobed 1 
, 3-1 , apicula 
about $ in. long, supported by the persistent rigid perianth ; scales 
trapezoid, bluntish, slightly biconvex, with a faint longitudinal 
furrow, pale brown, with a narrow blackish-brown margi; seeds 
almost half convex, grooved and irregularly wrinkled. 
Has.—In the evergreen tropical forests all over Burma from Chit ny 
Pegu, and Martaban down to enasserim and the Andaman Islands.—Fr. 4P*" 
May.—s : .—SS.=Si8. Metam., ete 
Remanxs.—The rattans very strong and , used for ropes, walking-sticks, 
basket-work, ete., in the same way as those of the following species. 
