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520 PALME. [ Calamus. 
less connate, deeply 2-cleft; spadix ample, decompound, nodding, 
tendril-bearing; spathes compressed linear-tubular, densely black- 
spiny, the partial spathes unarmed, tubular, and much lacerating at 
apex; spathules tubular-cymbiform, densely imbricate, truncate, 
minutely brown-scurfy, the one side more produced and often 
lacerating ; flowers...; drupes ovoid-oblong, acuminate, about an 
inch long, black and brown variegated, 1-seeded, supported by the 
scarcely enlarged perianth ; scales much imbricated, trapezoid, not 
furrowed on the crustaceous, glossy, pale brown, rather flat back, 
rather broadly black-bordered and produced in a large, pale brown, 
minutely lacerate, membranous, rather acute appendage ; seed oblong, 
broadly and longitudinally ribbed. 
Haz.—Common in the evergreen tropical forests from the eastern slopes of 
the Pegu Yomah and Martaban down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—?r. 
H.S.—s : 1—SS.—=SiS. Metam., etc. 
7. C. tenuis, Roxb.—An evergreen extensively scandent rat- 
tan palm, all parts glabrous, the sheathed stems as thick as the 
finger, the canes themselves not thicker than a common quill ; leaves 
pinnate, without tendril, 14-2 ft. long or longer, the petiole short, 
ong the margin with straight, and on the back with hooked 
thorns, often saccate at the base, the rachis similarly armed to the 
petiole, the thorns becoming solitary further up ; the sheaths green, 
glabrous, distantly armed with short, flat and broad, excavate sharp 
thorns of various size, sending out from their front a recurvet= 
thorny whip-like tendril; pine all equidistant, alternate, linear- 
lanceolate, in. long, acuminate, bristly ciliate and above 
furnished with capillary bristles on the 3 principal nerves, uni- 
formly green ; spadix arising from the front of the sheath, elongate, 
terminating in a whip-like recurved-thorny tendril, glabrous; 
spathes elongate-tubular, with an obliquely acute short limb, green, 
slightly fugaceous-scurfy, armed with short, seattered, recurv 
sharp thorns, the partial ones unarmed, scurfy, short, fimbriate at 
the point; spathules very short, cymbiform, truncate, densely 
crowded and small; flowers small, distichous, about a line long, the 
males and hermaphrodites in alternate pairs; drupes almost ellipsoid- 
globular, seated on the pedicel-shaped indurated perianth, apiculate, 
nearly } in. long, straw-coloured ; scales rhomboid, uniformly straw- 
coloured, with a narrow whitish border, acute, almost flat, with a dis- 
tinct longitudinal furrow. 
Has.—Chittagong ; also Pegu.—Fl. R.S. ; Fr. Apr. 
8. C. sae, Roxb,—An evergreen, slender, seandent rattan 
palm, all parts glabrous, the sheathed stems as thick as the finger, 
the canes only as thick as the common quill; leaves 2-3 ft. long, 
pinnate, without tendril the petiole very short, and, like the rachis, 
