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One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and cordage, and many other purposes.

habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.

The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.

ecies of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.

summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

See Rattan.

A rattan cane. [Obs.] Pepys.