62(i MONOECiA POLYANDRIA. Saguerus. 



been informed that the best trees will yield at the rate of one 

 Imndred pints in the twenty-four hours. The pith or flirina- 

 ceous part of the trunk of old trees, is said to be equal to the 

 best Sago; the natives make it into bread, and boil it into 

 thick gruel ; these form a great part of the diet of those peo- 

 ple; and during the late famine, they suffered little while 

 those trees lasted. 1 have reason to believe this substance 

 to be highly nutricious. 1 have eaten the gruel, and think it 

 fully as palatable as that made of the Sago Ave get from the 

 Malay countries. 



SAGUERUS. R. 

 Male calyx three-leaved. Corol three-petalled. Female 

 calyx five-leaved. Corol three-petalled. Germ superior, 

 three-celled ; cells one-seeded, attached to the base of the 

 axis. Style none. Sligma tridentate. Berry three-celled, 

 with a single seed in each cell. Embryo in the back of the 

 perisperm. 



S. Rumphii. Roxh, 



Palma Indica vinaria secunda, Saguerus, sive Gomutus 

 Gomuto. Rmnph. Amb. up. bl. t. 13. 



Anou. Maruleii's History of Sumatra, p. 77. 



A ring a SacchariJ'era of Labilliardiere. 



Borassus Gomvtiis. Lonrier. Cochin Ck. 759. 



This beautiful and stately palm appears to be indigenous 

 in all the Islands to the eastward of the Bay of Bengal, seve- 

 ral of the plants were introduced into the Company's Botanic 

 garden at Calcutta by Colonel Kyd, about twelve years ago; 

 and now, (Decendier 17.99,) two, three or four of the largest 

 of them have been in blossom for these two years past. 



Trunk straight, as yet short, and covered entirely with 

 sheaths of the fronds, and the black horse-hair-like fibres, 

 called by the Malays Ejoo, which issue in great abundance 

 from the margins of those sheaths. As the trees advance in 



