176 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Corypha, 
tie the rafters of their houses, for they are said to be 
strong and durable. Ido not find that the wood is ap- 
plied to any useful purpose. 
2. C. elata. R. 
__. Leaves lunate-cordate, palmate-pinnatifid, plaited; seg- 
ments from forty to fifty pair; stipes armed. Inflores- 
cence globular, one-fourth the length of the trunk of the 
tree, ’ 
Beng. Bujoor, or Bujur-batool. 
This stately palmis a native of Bengal, where it flow- 
ers in March and April ; the seeds require about twelve 
months to ripen. . 
Trunk straight, but often varying in thickness. I hitve 
two trees, which were pretty well ascertained to be about 
thirty years ‘old when in flower ; one was seventy feet to 
the base of the inflorescence, the other about sixty ; cir- 
cumference near the root eight feet, and about the middle 
of the trees five and a half or six ; their whole length 
strongly marked with rough, dark coloured, spiral ridges, 
and furrows, which plainly point out the spiral arrange- 
ment of the leaves. The ligneous fibres, as in the order, 
-are on the outside, forming a tube for the soft spongy 
substance within, of a dark chocolate colour, tough and 
hard, but by no means equal, in either quantity or qua- 
lity, to the very serviceable wood of Borassus pape: 
formis. 
Leaves (fronds,) round the top of the teal; ieeaseilt- 
ately under the base of the inflorescence, numerous, 
_palmate pinnatifid, plaited from eight to ten feet each 
“-way ; segments generally from forty to fifty pair, united 
about half their length, ensiform, apices rather obtuse and 
bifid, texture hard, smooth on both sides. When the tree 
begins to blossom, the leaves wither and soon fall off, 
leaving the fructiferous part naked. -Petioles (stipes) 
from six to twelve feet long, concave above, with the— 
