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IV. A Commentary on the Third Part of the Hortus Malabaricus. 
By Francis Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. and L.S. 
Read December 7, 1824; and June 21, 1825. 
Coppa PANNA, p. 1. tab. 1—12. 
Ix mountainous stony places of Malabar I observed the Codda 
Panna of the natives very common ; but I never observed it either 
in flower or fruit, nor did I ever see its leaves so large as Rheede 
describes them. The leaves which I saw were about the size of 
those of the Borassus flabelliformis ; that is, five or six feet in dia- 
meter: and it must be observed, that Rheede states that it is only 
when the tree is young (* antequam ullos emisit ramulos 7) that its 
leaf is fourteen feet broad and eighteen long: “folia tamen cum 
arbor ramos (stipites nempe) undique emittit, altiusque excres- 
cat, sensim minora proferuntur." It is in this state alone that I 
remember to have seen it. In my Journey to Mysore (ii. 488.) 
I have given an account of the uses to which it is applied ; and 
I must further observe that, notwithstanding its size and woody 
texture, this plant, like our annuals of Europe, produces fruc- 
tification only once, and then dies; whereas many herbaceous 
plants, as well as trees, continue to bud and flower every year 
for ages. ; 
The generic name Panna is not peculiar to Palms, as the 
author supposed; but even in the Hortus M alabaricus is given 
to several Ferns. (Hort. Mal. xii. 31, 35, 61, 65, 67.) It is 
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