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nually. In the cocoanut-oil industry, too, Ceylon ranks first, 
exporting annually over fifty-million pounds to be used 
largely for soap-making, but also, after purifying, in the 
preparation of butter substitutes. In addition, Ceylon ex- 
ports yearly about thirty million pounds of coir, or cocoanut 
ber, used chiefly in the manufacture of mats, ropes, and 
stuffing fiber. There should be mentioned also the ivory-nut 
palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, which yields ivory nut— 
the hard ivory-like fruit of the plant—used in this country 
for making buttons. 
While palms are important in our own country, they are 
vastly more so in the countries to which they are indigenous, 
where, as has been rather strikingly said, they furnish the 
natives with houses, clothing, food, and ornaments. 
The following -is a list of the seeds included in the col- 
lection, all of which appear on the two accompanying plates 
under the numbers indicated. Where two specimens occur 
in the plates under one number, the left-hand one is the com- 
ie fruit and the right-hand one the seed stripped of its” 
usk or other covering. Where only one specimen appears 
under a given number this is the seed deprived of its cover- 
ing. In a few instances three specimens appear under one 
number. In these cases the left-hand one is the complete 
fruit; the middle one the same but with the thin epidermal 
covering severed to expose the fibrous husk beneath; and the 
right-hand one the seed stripped of its husk. 
PLATE 7 (Frontispiece) 
(All specimens are figured about two-thirds natural size.) 
1. Mauritia vinifera. 8. Cocos edulis. 
2. Sagus Rumphii. 9. Polyandrococos caudescens. 
3. Areca Catechu. 10. Latania edulis. 
4. Kentia Joanis. 11. Arikuryroba Capanemae. 
5. Acrocomia intumescens. 12. Cocos coronata. 
6. Bactris Ottostaffeana. 13. Cocos Romanzoffiana. 
7. Cocos picrophylla. 14. Hnterpe oleracea, 
. PLATE 8 
(All specimens figured practically natural size.) 
15. Sabal Adansoni. 31. Desmonchus horridus. 
16, Sabal serrulatum. 32. Oreodoxa regia. 
17. Sabal princeps. 33. Pinanga maculata. 
18. Sabal havanensis. 34. Areca Luttensis. 
19. Licuala Jeanenceyi. 35. Trithrinaz brasiliensis. 
20. Licuala Rumphii. 36. Pinanga spectabilis. 
21. Licuala horrida. 37. Neonicholsonia Georgei. 
22. Phoenia tomentosa. 38. Cocos odorata, 
23. Phoenix spinosa. 39. Areca rubra. 
24. Kentia Macarthuri. 40. Livistona Hoogendorpii. 
25. Kentia Sanderiana. 41. Martinezia caryotaefolia 
26. Kentia robusta. 42. Latania bor 
27. Pinanga Kuhlii. 43. Caryota urens. 
28. Licuala elegans. 44. Oaryota plumosa. 
29. Oreodowa oleracea, 45. Corypha australis, 
