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Medium  Pahang  No.  2 is  similar,  duller  in  colour. 
Macassar  Aver,  dull  coloured  'i  inch  through  ribbed,  joints  about 
8 inches,  rather  a stiff  cane.  ^ 
Jambi . Soontie,  T inch  through,  joints  8 inches  long,  a polished 
cane  with  fine,  transverse  striations. 
Brown  Segar,  rather  dark  coloured  shining  striate  i inch  through, 
joints  over  a foot  long. 
Batavia  Segar,  the  same  class  of  rattan  but  bright  yellow  polished, 
flexible. 
Bulongan  Segar,  rather  more  slender  bright  yellow,  hardly 
polished. 
Thin  Padang  segar.  Shining  yellow  cane,  J inch  through  or  less' 
joints  9 inches  long. 
Bulongan  Sutra  Segar,  slender  4 in.  through  light  coloured,  ribb-^ 
ed,  flexible,  joints  7 inches  long. 
Palembang  Segar,  slender  J inch  througli  joints  6 inches,  light 
coloured,  and  ribbed. 
Cotie  Pakay,  Slender  under  J inch  through  with  very  long  joints 
14  or  more  inches,  yellow  shining.' 
Kiri  i'^yer,  slender  and  rather  dull,  joints  14  inches  long. 
Thin  Goruntulo  Ayer,  a light  coloured  cane  under  4 inch  through, 
surface  dull,  joints  12  inches  or  less. 
Kangboy  Ayer,  dull  brownish  cane  1 inch  through,  joints  7 or 
8 inches  long,  rattan  stiff. 
Penang  Ayer,  dull,  longitudinally  ribbed,  stiff,  4 dich  or  less 
through,  joints  7 inches. 
Indragiri  Ayer,  under  4 inch  through,  yellowish  rather  dull, 
flexible. 
Stout  Padang  Ayer  is  a smooth  shining  cane,  half  an  iiu;h  through 
with  long  joints. 
Sincooloran  is  over  half  an  inch  or  less,  duller  in  color,  but 
shining. 
Loontie,  smooth,  light  coloured  J to  inch  through,  stiff  and 
hard.  ^ 
Banjargigit,  4 in<^di  through,  brownish  stiff. 
Malacca  Canes,  Rotan  Semamhu. 
There  are  at  least  two  rattans  which  supply  the  Malacca  canes, 
the  brown  and  white  canes  being  of  different  species.  The  brown 
cane  is  derived  from  Calamus  scipionum , Lour,  'fhis  is  a very 
large  plant,  forming  a good  sized  bush  of  young  shoots  before  climb- 
ing. The  leaves  are  rather  light  green  about  9 feet  long  with 
lanceolate  leaflets  24  inches  long  and  3 inches  wide  ecjually  s[)aced 
on  the  thorny  rachis. 
The  sheaths  are  armed  with  very  large  Hat  dagger  shaped  thorns, 
yellow,  the  petiole  over  2 feet  long*  is  thick,  and  armed  with  similar 
but  shorter  thorns,  below  its  junction  with  the  sheath  is  a large 
swelling,  and  there  is  a long  triangular  brown  ligule  above  the 
junction. 
4 he  fla^rella  rise  from  the  slieaihs  and  there  are  none  on  the  leaves, 
thev  are  1 o or  12  feet  long  and  very  thick.  4'he  stems  are  about 
