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zalacca as having all the flowers hermaphrodite ; no com¬ 
mon fpatlie, but wandering partial fpathes; a branched 
fpadix ; and the pericarpium a largifli turbinate berry, ir¬ 
regularly angular from'the preflTurc of the neighbouring 
berries, of a bay rufefcent colour; rind thin, papery, co¬ 
vered with cartilaginous f'cales, the uppermoft upright and 
linear, but all the reft prefled dole, imbricate downwards, 
fubcordate, with a railed line along the middle, and a lit¬ 
tle reflex at the tip, fo that the berry is rough to the touch ; 
the infide is pulpy, but the pulp gradually dries up. Seeds 
three, fixed without any receptacle to the bottom of the 
berry ; two of them are commonly abortive ; they are al- 
mofi globular, convex on one fide, and angular on the 
other, with a fmall, umbilical, fungous, thick, fubcor¬ 
date, lobe appended to them below ; they have three co¬ 
verings, the outer pulpy but drying up, the middle cruf- 
taceous, very thin, putting forth a fubulate, horny, pro- 
cefs within the vertical canal of the albumen, the inner 
membranaceous, yellow-rufefcent, clofely adhering; al¬ 
bumen coriaceous-cartilaginous, perforated at top with a 
funnel-lhaped canal from the vertex to the middle, and 
having an oblong-conical cavity below for the reception of 
the embryo, which is one-lobed, fubulate, milky, and 
placed at the bale of the feed. The rattan grows abun¬ 
dantly in the Eafl Indies, by the fides of rivers. Its ex¬ 
treme toughnefs and pliability render it of confiderable 
ufe to the inhabitants, for vviths and almoft all the pur- 
pofes to which we apply ropes, than which it is faid to be 
more durable in fait water: they alfo wattle their houfes 
with it, and make bafkets and all kinds of wicker-work. 
It is imported into Europe, where it is ufed for a variety 
of fmall tiles ; fitch as the bottoms of chairs, riding and 
walking canes, women’s hoop-petticoats, See. See. The 
zalacca or falxek is cultivated for the fruit, which is about 
the fize of a walnut, and covered with feales, like thofe 
of a lizard; below the feales, are two or three yellow ker¬ 
nels, in flavour fomewhat refembling a ftrawberry. The 
laft variety is fuppofed to yield the dragon’s-blood. 
CA'LAMUS AROMA'TICUS. See Acorus. 
CA'LAMUS ODORA'TUS. See Andropogon. 
CA'LAMUS,y'. in ancient poets, a Ample kind of pipe, 
or mufical inflrument of the lhepherds and herdftnen ; ufu- 
ally made either of an oaten (talk or a reed. 
CA'LAMUS SCRIPTO'RIUS,/. in antiquity, a reed 
or rufh to write with. The ancients made ufe of ftyles to 
write on tables covered with wax ; and of a reed, or rufh, 
to write on parchment, or Egyptian paper. 
CA'LAMY (Edmund), an eminent Prefbyterian divine, 
born at London, February, 1600, and educated at Pem- 
broke-hall in Cambridge, where he took the degree of 
B.A. in 1619, and that of B. D. in 1632. His attach¬ 
ment to the anti-arminian party prevented him from ob¬ 
taining a fellowfhip, but he was chofen tanquam focius of 
that college. Dr. Felton, bifliop of Ely, took him after¬ 
wards into the number of his chaplains ; in which Ration 
he purfued his fturiies with great vigour, employing there¬ 
in (ixteen hours a-day. He was prefented by that prelate 
to the vicarage of St. Mary’s, in Swaffham-Prior, Cam- 
bridgcfhire, which he religned, on being chofen, after 
Felton’s death (which happened in 1626), one of the lec¬ 
turers of St. Edmundlbury in Suffolk. Here he continued 
ten years; and is faid to have been a very ftriCt conformift : 
but when bilhop Wren’s articles and the book of fports 
came to be infifled on, he thought it his duty to avoid con¬ 
forming for the future, and apologized for his former con¬ 
duct in a recantation fermon, preached at Bury. After 
this, he was prefented by the earl of Effex to the reftory 
of Rochford in Effex; and then chofen minifter of St. Mary 
Aldermanbury, which brought him to London in 1639. 
In July the fame year, he was incorporated into the uni- 
verlity of Oxford. Upon the opening of the long parlia¬ 
ment, in November 1640, he diftinguifhed himfelf in de¬ 
fence of the Prefbyterian caufe, ami had a principal hand 
in writing the famous SmeCtymnuus. He was afterwards 
an active member of the affembly of divines, and often or- 
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dered to preach before the parliament. He was at the 
lame time one of the Cornhill lecturers, and his minifteriai 
abilities procured him very great intereft in the city of 
London. He was a ftrentious oppofer of the fiectaries, and 
ufed his utmoft endeavours to prevent thofe violences, 
which were committed after the king was brought from 
the ille of Wight. When a favourable opportunity offered, 
he was very alliduous to procure the return of Charles 1 !. 
and actually preached before the parliament the day they 
voted the king’s reftoration ; and was one of the divines 
lent over to compliment hint in Holland. June 16 60, lie 
was made one of his majefty’s chaplains, and was offered 
the bifhoprie of Coventry and Lichfield; which he refill¬ 
ed. Calamy was one of the commiflioners for the confe¬ 
rence at the Savoy. He was turned out of his cure of St. 
Mary Aldermanbury, on St. Bartholomew’s day 1662, for 
non-conformity. He remained however in his pari 111, and 
came conftantly to church. On Sunday December 28, 
1662, the expected preacher not coming in due time, feme 
of the principal per Tons in t lie parilh prevailed upon Ca- 
lamy to luppiy his place. Certain paifages in his fermon 
on this occalion gave fo much offence, that he was com¬ 
mitted to Newgate, by the lord mayor’s warrant, for con¬ 
tempt of the ad of uniformity ; but in a few days the 
king difeharged him. The fight of London in a flies, which 
lie lived to fee, broke his heart: he died October 29, 1 666. 
Befides publifhing feveral fermons on pradica! fubjeds, 
he had a hand in drawing up the Vindication of t lie Prei- 
byterial Government and Miniflrv, printed in 16 o, and 
the Jus Divinum Minifterii Evangehci Anglicani, printed 
in 1650. 
CA'LAMY (Benjamin), an eminent divine and excel¬ 
lent preacher, was fon of the preceding. From St. Paul’s 
fchool in London, he was lent to Catharine-hall, Cam¬ 
bridge, and fuccelfively took the degrees of B and M. A. 
He became alfo fellow of that hall, and an eminent tu or. 
April 25, 1677, he was chofen minifter of St. Mary Al¬ 
dermanbury,.and loon after appointed one of bis majefly’s 
chaplains in ordinary. In 1680 he took his degree of D. D. 
In 1683 be preached, in his own church, his famous fer¬ 
mon on Lukexi. 41, which he afterwards publifhed under 
the title of A Difcourfe about a Scrupulous Conference. 
In 1683, he refigned the living of St. Mary Aldermanbury, 
upon bis adiniflion to the vicarage of St. Lawrence Jewry, 
with St. Mary Magdalen, Milk-ftreet, annexed. June 18, 
1685, he was inftalled into the prebend of Harlefton, in 
the cathedral of St. Paul. The late of alderman Cornifh, 
his parifhioner at St. Lawrence Jewry, affeCted him in a 
very fenfible manner. He had appeared for that gentle¬ 
man at his trial for high treafon, and vifited him in New¬ 
gate ; and, being earneftly prefled to attend him to the place 
of execution, he told Mr. Cornifh, that he could as well 
die with him as bear the fight of his death in fuch cir- 
cumftances as he was in. On his repeated applications to 
Sir George Jefferies in the alderman’s favour, he received 
this anfwer: “ Dear doctor, fet your heart at reft, and 
give yourfelf no further trouble ; for I can allure you, that 
if you could offer a mine of gold as deep as the monument 
is high, and a bunch of pearls as big as the flames at the 
top of it, it would not purchafe his 1 ife.” It js thought 
the violent death of this gentleman, and a fenle ot public 
calamities, brought on his laft illnefs, which carried him 
oft' in January 1686. An excellent volume of his fermons 
was publifhed after his death. 
CA'LAMY (Edmund), grandfon to Mr. Edmund Ca¬ 
lamy minifter of Aldermanbury, born April 3, 1671. 
Having made a confiderable progrefs in grammar learning 
at feveral private fchools, in March 1688, lie went over 
to the univerfity of Utrecht, where he (Inched philofophy 
under De Vries, and civil law under Vander Muyden, and 
attended Grsevius’s lectures upon Sophocles and Puffen- 
dorf’s Introduction. His application to tiis (Indies at this 
place was fo great, that his proficiency therein gained him 
the.friendftiip of twm of his countrymen at that univerfity, 
who rofe. afterwards to very high ftations in church and 
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