626 MONOECIA POLYANDRIA. Saquerus. 
been informed that the best trees will yield at the rate of one 
hundred pints in the twenty-four hours. The pith or farina- 
ceous part of the trunk of old trees, is said to be equal to the 
best Sago; the natives make it into bread, and boil it into 
thick gruel ; these form a great part of the diet of those peo- 
ple; and during the late famine, they suffered little while 
those trees lasted. I have reason to believe this substance 
to be highly nutricious, I have eaten the gruel, and think it 
fully as palatable as that made of the Sago we get from the | 
Malay countries. 
SAGUERUS. R. 
Male calyx three-leaved, Corol three-petalled. Female 
calyx five-leaved. Corol three-petalled. Germ superior, 
three-celled ; cells one-seeded, attached to the base of the 
axis, Style none. Stigma tridentate. Berry three-celled, 
with a single seed in each cell, Embryo in the back of the 
Perieperm, 
‘s. Teephi, Roxb. ey 
Palma Indica vinaria secunda, Saguerus, sive Gomutus 
Gomuto. Rumph, Amb. i, p. 57. t. 13. 
Anou. Marsden’s History of Sumatra, p. 77. 
oe Saccharifera of Labilliardiere. 
_Borassus Gomutus, Lourier. Cochin Ch, 759. pena 
: _ This beautiful and stately palm appears to be indigenous 
call the Islands to the eastward of the Bay of Bengal, seve- 
ral of the plants were introduced into the Company’s Botanic 
garden at Calcutta by Colonel Kyd, about twelve years ag05 
and now, (December 1799,) two, three or four of the largest. 
of them have been i in blossom for these two years past. — 
Trunk straight, as yet short, and covered entirely with 
sheaths of the fronds, and the black horse-hair-like fibres, 
called by the Malays Ejoo, which issue in great abundance. 
from the margins of those sheaths, As the trees advance in 
