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Calamus Rotang
This is one of the palms that furnish the canes or
rattans used for chair bottoms, sides of pony-carriages, and
similar purposes. It is a climbing palm and grows to an immense
length; specimens 300 feet long have been exhibited, climbing over
and amongst the branches of trees, supporting themselves by means
of the hooked spines attached to the leaf stalks. _C. rudentum_
and _C. viminalis_ furnish flexible canes. In their native
countries they are used for a variety of manufacturing purposes,
also for ropes and cables used by junks and other coasting
vessels. In the Himalayas they are used in the formation of
suspension bridges across rivers and deep ravines. _C. scipionum_
furnishes the well-known Malacca canes used for walking sticks.
They are naturally of a rich brown color. The clouded and mottled
appearance which some of these present is said to be imparted to
them by smoking and steaming.
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