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Medium Pahang No. 2 is similar, duller in colour. 
Macassar Ayer, dull coloured f inch through ribbed, joints about 
8 inches, rather a stiff cane. 
Jambi Soontie, } inch through, joints 8 inches long, a polished 
cane with tine transverse striations. 
Brown Segar, rather dark coloured shining striate j 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, £ inch through or less* 
joints 9 inches long. 
Bulongan Sutra Segar, slender ^ in. through light coloured, ribb- 
ed, flexible, joints 7 inches long. 
Palembang Segar, slender \ inch through joints 6 inches, light 
coloured, and ribbed. . . 
Cotie Pakay, Slender under £ inch through with very long joints 
14 or more inches, yellow shining. 
Kiri ciyer, slender and rather dull, joints 14 inches long. 
Thin Goruntulo Ayer, a light coloured cane under 5 inch through, 
surface dull, joints 1 2 inches or less. 
Kangboy Ayer, dull brownish cane 5 inch through, joints 7 01 
8 inches long, rattan stiff. 
Penang Ayer, dull, longitudinally ribbed, stiff, } inch or less 
through, joints 7 inches. 
Indragiri Ayer, under £ inch through, yellowish rather dull, 
flexible. . 
Stout Padang Ayer is a smooth shining cane, half an tnyh through 
with long joints. 
Sincooloran is over half an inch or less, duller in color, but 
shining. 
Loontie, smooth, light coloured | to | inch through, stiff and 
hard. 
Banjargigit, j inch through, brownish stiff. 
Malacca Canes, Rotan Semamru. 
There arc 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. I his 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 equally spaced 
on the thorny rachis. 
The sheaths are armed with very large flat 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. 
The flagella rise from the sheaths and there are none on the leaves, 
thev are 10 or 12 feet long and very thick. The stems are about 
