Caryota. MONOECIA POLYANDRIA, 625 
C. urens, Willd. iv. 493. 
Unarmed. Leaves bipinnate; /eaflets alternate, wbdigé- 
shaped, obliquely preemorse. 
Teling. Jeeroogoo, 
Saguaster Major. Rumph. Amb. i. t. 14. 
Schunda pana. Rheed, Mal. i. t. 11. 
A native of the various mountainous parts of India, where 
it grows to be one of the largest and most charming of this 
beautiful tribe, or natural order. Flowering time the hot and 
rainy seasons, 
Trunk straight, often sixty feet high, thick in proportion, 
columnar, and marked slightly with the annular cicatrices 
of the petioles. It grows about as fast as the coconut tree, 
when in a soil and situation congenial to its nature. Leaves 
pinnate. Leaflets sub-alternate, sessile, obliquely preemorse ; 
the preemorse part much jagged with sharp points. Spathe 
many-leaved. Spadix pendulous, from six to sixteen feet 
long, branchy ; branches simple, from four to eight feet long, 
pretty thickly covered with innumerable sessile flowers, and 
these most regularly disposed in threes; one male on each 
side, and a single female between them, Male calyx three- 
leaved, cup-form; /eaflets unequal, concave, of a very firm 
texture, permanent, Petals three, much larger than the ca- 
~ lyx, elliptic, concave, of a firm leathery texture, green on the 
outside, whitish on the inside. Filaments numerous, very 
short. Anthers linear. Female flowers on the same spadix. 
Calyx and corol, as in the male. Stamens and nectarial fi- 
laments three, between the corol and base of the germ, each 
ending in a glandular enlarged apex. Germ superior, three- 
sided, Style none. Stigma small, two-cleft. Berry round- 
ish, one-celled, of the size of a nutrheg, coveréd with a thin, 
yellow, acrid bark, but nothing that — = name of 
pulp. Seed or nut generally solitary. 
This tree is highly valuable to the natives of the countries" 
where it grows in plenty. It yields them, during the hot 
season, an immense quantity of toddy or palm wine. I have 
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