Aleurites. MONOECIA POLYANDRIA. 629 
such as are low, and near the coasts of India, to extend the 
cultivation thereof as much as possible, The palm wine itself 
and the sugar it ‘yields, the black fibres for cables and cor- 
dage, and the pith for sago, independent of many other uses, 
are objects of very great importance, particularly to the first 
maritime power in the world which is in a great measure de- 
pendant on foreign states for hemp, the chief material of 
which cordage is made in Europe. 
From observation made in the Botanic garden, well grown, 
thriving trees produce about six leaves annually, and each 
leaf yields from eight to sixteen ounces of the clean fibres. 
Note. In the same garden are now (1810) many thou- 
sand plants, and young trees, some of them above twenty 
years growth, with trunks as thickas a stout man’s body, and 
from twenty to thirty feet high, exclusive of the foliage. 
They are in blossom all the year; one of them was lately cut 
down, and yielded about 150 pounds of good Sago meal. 
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_ ALEURITES. Schreb. gen. N. 1472. 
Male calyx one-leaved, two or three-cleft. Corol five- 
petalled.- Female calyx and corol as in the male. Germ 
single, two-celled, with one ovulum in each, suspended from 
the top of the partition. Styles two, each two-cleft, Drupe, 
with two very hard, one-celled nuts. Embryo converse and 
— with a perisperm. 
a NM. 56. Willd. iv. 590. 
Camirium, ide Amb. ii, # 180. ¢. 58. 
- Jaglans Camirium. baile: Cochia Ch, 702... 
Croton moluccanum. Willd, iv. 551. 
< Beng. ee also the name of the common 1» Wal 
. \ aay ore now a:pretty common in gardens about Cal 
-_ eutta, originally from the Malay countries, Flowering time 
oe the hot season; seed ripe in August. 
