Indies, especially the Molucca Isles, where the fruit is eatet, 
and where a substance is said to be taken from the stem, 
resembling the Sago produced bythe trunks of many Palms 
But this is probably a mistake; at any rate, it is by no means 
from this tree, as some have supposed, nor from an species 
of Crcas, that the Sago of the Shops.is produced, but from 
a species of Sagus*, a true Palm, though from what parti- 
cular species; or whether any one: exclusively, does’ not 
appear to be yet ascertained, Im the’ gardens and plan- 
tations. towards  the,sea-coast of the Southern provinces of 
Malabar, according to: Dr. (Bucuanan) Haminton’s Travels. 
in'the Mysore, vol. 2. p. 469, the Cycas circinalis, called 
Indu by ‘the natives (Toppa panna’ of the Hortus Mala- 
baricus) is very common ; but it:grows spontaneously from 
the:nuts that accidentally fall. The nuts are collected ; 
and having been dried for a month in the sun, are beaten 
in a mortar, and the kernels formed into a flour, which 
the natives eat and call Indum Podi.. It is reckoned supe- 
rior to the flour obtained from the stem of the Ermmpanna 
+ The Date Palm, which in all probability afforded the Palm leaves 
that were strewed on the to welcome our Saviour's entrance at 
Jerusalem. . ‘This plant is cultivated at the Isles d’Hytres, San Remo, Nice, 
Genoa, &c. and more especially at Bordighiera, a small place of the Sardinian 
States, in the territory of Genoa, where it constitutes a very important article 
of commerce, in the exportation of the leaves. They are sold in the spring, 
fur Palm Sunday, and in the autumn, for the Passover of the Jews. Several 
vessels quit’ Bordighiera with this singular freight, and some go so far as 
Holland, where great quantities of the Palm leaves are bought by the J 
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