256 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Class VI. 
4300 stellipUis Ker. 
4301 veratrif61ia W. 
4302 linearis B.Rep. 
4303serrata W. . 
4304juncea W. . 
751. CURCU'LIGO. H. 
4305 sumatrana Boxb. 
4306 plicata H. K. 
4307 orchioides W. 
4308 brevifolia H. K. 
4309 latifolia H. K. 
4310 recurvata H. K. 
752. BAMBU'SA. W. 
4311 arundinacea W. 
4312 verticillata W. 
153. CA'LAMUS. W. 
4313 rudei/tum W. 
4314 Zalacca W. 
754. EHRHAR'TA 
4315 panicea W. 
755. A'CORUS. W. 
4316 calamus W. 
4317 gramineus W. 
756. ORON'TIUM. W. 
4318 aquaticum JV. 
4319 jap6nicum IV. 
757. TUPIS'TRA. B. M. 
4320 squalida B. M. 
758. TAC'CA. W. 
4321 pinnat'ifida W. 
4322 integrifolia .B. M. 
4302 
starry-haired 
plaited-leaved 
linear-leaved 
saw-leaved 
rushy 
K. CORCULIGO. 
Sumatra 
plaited-leaved 
lAJ or 
£ lAJ or 
j£ lAJ or 
j£ lAJor 
)t A I or 
£ or 
£ lAI or 
narrow-leaved £ E] or 
iZa or 
£ [Z3 or 
short-leaved 
broad-leaved _ 
recurved-leav'd £ [23 or 
Bamboo Cane. 
common i O ec 
whorl- flowered £ □ cu 
Calamus. 
W. 
common 
Java 
Ehrharta. 
Panic-grass 
ACORUS. 
sweet-flag 
grass-leaved 
Orontium. 
aquatic 
Japan 
TUPISTRA. 
Amboyna 
Tacca. 
Salep 
entire-leaved 
£ □ cu 
iii lAJ cu 
^ A m 
£ A cu 
1 ji Y 
2 jn.jl Y 
ap.my Y 
1 jn.jl Y 
i.in.jl Y 
Hypoxidecv. 
3 jl Y 
li jn.jl Y 
I jn.jl Y 
imy.jl Y 
1| my.au Y 
i ... Y 
Graminece. 
40 ... Ap 
20 ... Ap 
Palmce. Sp. 2- 
C. G. H. 
C. G. H. 
C. G. H. 
C. G. H. 
Carolina 
Sp. 6—10. 
Sumatra 
C. G. H. 
E. Indies 
E. Indies 
Poolo Pin. 
Bengal 
Sp. 2—10. 
India 
India 
10. 
A cu 
A ec 
]^ I23CU 
(23 ec 
£ 23 CU 
50 ... Ap E. Indies 
20 ... Ap E. Indies 
Graminece. Sp. 1 — 8. 
2 my.jl Ap C. G. H. 
AroidecF. Sp. 2—3. 
2 jn.jl Ap Britain 
J f Ap China 
Aroidece. Sp. 2—4. 
§ jn Ap N. A mer. 
2 ja.ap Ap Japan 
Aroidece. Sp. 1. 
2 ap Ld Amboyna 
Aroidece. Sp. 2. 
2 ... Pu E. indies 
2 my.jl Pu E. Indies 
4308 
1821. 
1788. 
1792. 
1788. 
1787. 
1818. 
1788. 
1800. 
1804. 
1804. 
1730. 
1802. 
1812. 
1812. 
pools. 
1786. 
1775. 
1783. 
1793. 
1810. 
O s.p 
O l.p 
O l.p 
O l.p 
O l.p 
O l.p 
O Lp 
O l.p 
O l.p 
O l.p 
O l.p 
S I 
S 1 
S s.l 
S CO 
D m.s 
D s.p 
D s.p 
D s.p 
Bot. reg. 663 
Jac. ic. 2. t. 367 
Bot. rep. 171 
Bot. mag. 709 
Smi. spic.15. t.l6 
Bot. cab. 443 
Bot. reg. 345 
Roxb. cor.l. t.l3 
Bot. mag. 1076 
Bot. mag. 2034 
Bot. reg. 770 
Roxb. cor.l. t.7G 
Roxb. cor.l. t.80 
Rumph. 5. t. 52 
Rumph. t.57. f.2 
Smith ined.l. t.9 
Eng. bot. 356 
Smi. spic.15. t.l7 
Hook. ex. fl. 19 
Bot. mag. 898 
R l.p Bot. reg. 704 
R l.p 
Sk l.p 
Bot. cab. 692 
Bot. mag. 1488 
History, Use, Propagation, Culture. 
751. Curculigo. From Curculio, the weevil, one of the Coleopterous insects ; the seed having a process 
resembling the rostrum or beak of that animal. The species arc of the easiest culture and increase, but of 
little beauty. They in most respects resemble Hypoxi.s. 
752. Bambusa. Latinized from the Indian name Bambos. B. arundinacea has a woody, hollow, round, straight 
culm, forty feet high and upwards, simple and shining ; the internodes a foot in length and circumference; 
sheaths thick, hairy, rough, convolute, deciduous ; branches alternate, slender, solid, spiny, reclining, springing 
out from the base to the very top ; the lower ones being usually cut ofE Panicle of flowers diffused in spikes 
It grows naturally almost every where within the tropical regions. Over a great part of Asia it is very 
common; in China, Cochin-China, Tonquin, Cambodia, Japan, Ceylon, the peninsula of India, and the 
islands. It has been long introduced into the West Indies, and is said to flourish likewise in South Carolina. 
There is, perhaps, scarcely any plant that serves for such a variety of domestic purposes. In the East Indies 
great use is made of it in building, and the houses of the meaner people are almost entirely composed of it. Dr. 
Patrick Brown mentions, that it was yet strong and perfect in some of the houses which had been built by the 
Spaniards in Jamaica above a hundred years before. Bridges also are made of it, m.asts for their boats, boxes, 
cups, baskets, mats, and a great variety of other utensils and furniture, both domestic and rural. Paper also 
is made from it, by bruising and steeping it in water, and thus forming it into a paste. It is the common 
fence for gardens and fields ; and is frequently used as pipes for conveying water. The leaves are generally 
put round the chests of tea which are sent to Europe from China, as package, fastened together so as to form 
a kind of mat. The tops of the tender shoots are frequently pickled in the West Indies. 
In the cavities or tubular parts of the bamboo is found at certain seasons a concrete white substance, called 
Tabasheer or Tabachir, an article which the Arabian physicians hold in high estimation. It is commonly 
found in what are called the female or large bamboos. The bamboos which contain this concrete are found 
on shaking to contain a fluid, which, after some time, gradually lessens, and then they are opened in order to 
extract the Tabasheer. The nature of this substance is very different from what might have been expected 
in the product of a vegetable. Its indestructibility by fire, its total resistance to acid, its uniting by fusion 
^yith alkalies in certain proportions into a white opaque mass, into a transparent permanent glass, and it being 
again separable from these compounds entirely unchanged by acids, &c. seem to afford the strongest reasons 
for considering it as very nearly identical with common siliceous earth. As to its medical virtues, though the 
drug be, as before observed, in much esteem with the orientalists, yet they are not such as to cause it to have 
any regard paid it in the modern practice of physic in Europe. 
The bamboos grow rapidly to a great height in our stoves in moist loamy soil, and they are readily increased 
by suckers. 
753. Calamus. From jcctXa-fji^, a reed, in Greek ; qalem, in Arabic ; calam, in Sclavonic ; calamus, and 
culmus, in Latin. This genus seems to form the connecting link between the palms and the gramineous 
plants, having the inflorescence of the former, and the habit of the latter. It furnishes the rattan canes, of which 
