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QUARTERMASTER CORPS 



usually 25 to 30 feet high and smooth and very spiny forms 

 occur. The trunk contains great quantities of starch which 

 is the commercial sago and which is a basic food for the 

 natives in many parts of Malaya. (A) (fig. 10) is a full- 

 grown palm; (B) , a young palm; (C), a palm past maturity 

 in fruit, the starch in the trunk all used up by plant; 

 (D) flower and fruit bearing parts and a mature fruit; 

 (E) , lower part of a leaf of the spiny form. For brief dis- 



FiGURE 11. — Salacca edulis. 

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