Canjola. monoecia polyandria. 625 



C. mens. Willd. iv. 493. 



Unarmed. Leaves bipinnate; leaflets alternate, wedge- 

 shaped, obliquely prsemorse. 



Teling. Jeerooj^oo. 



Saouaster Major. Riunph. Amb. i. t. 14. 



Schunda pana. Rlieed. Mai. i. #.11. 



A native of the various mountainous parts of India, where 

 it sfrows to be one of the lar«:est and most charmingf of this 

 beautiful tribe, or natural order. Flowering- time the hot and 

 rainy seasons. 



Trunk straight, often sixty feet high, thick in proportion, 

 columnar, and marked slightly with the annular cicatrices 

 of the petioles. It grows about as fast as the coconut tree, 

 when in a soil and situation congenial to its nature. Leaves 

 pinnate. Leaflets sub-alternate, sessile, obliquely prsemorse ; 

 the proemorse part much jagged with sharp points. SpatJie 

 many-leaved. Spadix pendulous, from six to sixteen feet 

 long, branchy ; branches simple, from four to eight feet long, 

 pretty thickly covered with innumerable sessile flowers, and 

 these most regularly disposed in threes; one male on each 

 side, and a single female between them. Male calyx three- 

 leaved, cup-form ; leaflets unequal, concave, of a very firm 

 texture, permanent. Petals three, much larger than the ca- 

 lyx, elliptic, concave, of a firm leathery texture, green on the 

 outside, whitish on the inside. Filaments numerous, very 

 short. Jnthers linear. Female floivers on the same spadix. 

 Calyx and corol, as in the male. Stamens and nectarial fi- 

 laments three, between the corol and base of the germ, each 

 ending in a glandular enlarged apex. Germ superior, three- 

 sided. Style none. Stigma small, two-cleft. Berry round- 

 ish, one-celled, of the size of a nutmeg, covered with a thin, 

 yellow, acrid bark, but nothing that deserves the name of 

 pulp. Seed or nut generally solitary. 



This tree is highly valuable to the natives of the countries 

 where it grows in plenty. It yields them, during the hot 

 season, an immense quantity of toddy or palm wine. I have 



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