IQ QUARTERMASTER CORPS 



&. Salacca edulis. — ^This is a tufted, spiny, almost stemless 

 palm which grows up to 15 feet high. It bears round, brown 

 fruits which are covered with scales. The yellowish white, 

 sour-sweet, edible pulp surrounding two or three rather large 

 hard seeds may be eaten raw. The immature fruits may also 

 be cooked and eaten. Normally this palm is not founi in 

 forests but usually is planted. Local names: Sdlak, huah- 

 sdlak, hdkam, tiisum, seekumai. 



c. Rattan palm (Calamus). — There are many different 

 kinds of rattan palm and they are found chiefly in the high 

 forest. They are all climbing palms. The leaf stalks and 

 growing parts are very spiny; the stems are smooth and vary 

 in size from the thickness of a pencil to 2 inches in diameter. 

 They are often several hundred feet long. The leaf tips are 

 greatly extended and supplied with numerous very sharp, 

 hard, clawlike teeth. The small growing point or "cabbage" 

 of most species is edible. In many species the lower foot or 

 two of the trunk ((A) , fig. 12) is slightly thickened and con- 

 tains some starch; these lower parts may be roasted and 

 the cooked starch "chewed out." The stems yield excellent 

 drinking water (see par. 15). 



d. Buri palm; fishtail palm; sugar palm. — All of these 

 palms, like the sago palm, store up great quantities of starch 

 in the softer inner parts of their trunks which may be used as 

 food. (See par. 15.) The tender buds or "cabbage" of all 

 may be cooked and eaten. All of these occur in open lands 

 and in secondary forests; the fishtail palm occurs also in the 

 high forest. The buri palm is recognized by its enormous 

 size, often 50 feet high, its great fan-shaped leaves, and their 

 very stout spiny leaf stalks; the fishtail palm by the shape of 

 its leaves; and the sugar palm by its very long feather-shaped 

 ascending leaves, the lower parts of the leaf stalks where 

 they join the stem with many very long black stiff hairs. 

 Local names: iCorypha) : Buri, gdwang, gehang, silar, silal, 

 tildda, tdli, siger. (Caryota) : Anibong, batikan, pugdhan, 

 takipan, genduru, andudu, ramisi, dni, pdlun, bdru, 

 (Arenga) : Kaong, kabo-negro, hidiok, idiok, irrok, hdnu, 

 dren, dnau, semdki, daluku. 



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