248 = 2 - MONOPERIGYNE#. 
are common in the bazaars of India: they are altog 
unrefined, and known by the English under the ger 
name of Jaggeries.—Ainslie, i. 409. These three p: 
furnish the best kind of toddy. Palm wine is the fermented 
juice of several Palms, not subjected to the process of dis- 
tillation. The best kind is that obtained from the Elaws 
guineensis. The wine is obtained by scooping a cavity 
the top of the stem, after cutting off the crown of foliage 
The juice flows into the cavity at the rate of one gallon 4 
for a fortnight, gradually diminishing after that time. 
is very sweet at first, but soon ferments and turns vinous- 
The Areca Catechu furnishes the Betel-nut; see p. 239. 
Mepicrnat Prorerties.—The Palms are of little interest 
in a medicinal point of view. Toddy is said to have a gently 
aperient effect. The Betel-nut, when young and tender, 
occasionally made into decoction, and given in costiveness 
from dyspepsia. A soft, downy, light brown substance, 
found on the outside of the lower part of the branches of the 
 Cocoa-nut tree, where they spring from the stem, called 
- Cocoa-nut cotton, is used by the Indians for suppressing ha- 
morrhage i in cases of wounds, leech-bites, &e.— Ainslie, 
19, - Palm-oil and et in some of the Phar- 
| Offcinal Plants, 
Cocos butyracea, 
Sagus Rumphii. 
