Aleurites. monoecia poly,\ndria. 029 



such as are low, and near the coasts of India, to extend the 

 cultivation thereof as much as possible. The pahn wine itself 

 and the sugar it yields, the black fibres for cables and cor- 

 dage, and the pith for sago, independent of many other uses, 

 are objects of very great importance, particularly to the first 

 maritime power in the world which is in a great measure de- 

 pendant on foreign states for hemp, the chief material of 

 which cordage is made in Europe. 



From observation made in the Botanic garden, well grown, 

 thriving trees produce about six leaves annually, and each 

 leaf yields from eight to sixteen ounces of the clean fibres. 



Note. In the same garden are now (1810) many thou- 

 sand plants, and young trees, some of them above twenty 

 years growth, with trunks as thick as a stout man's body, and 

 from twenty to thirty feet high, exclusive of the foliage. 

 They are in blossom all the year; one of them was lately cut 

 down, and yielded about 150 pounds of good Sago meal. 



ALEURITES. Schreh. gen. N. 1472. 

 Male calyx one-leaved, two or three-cleft. Corol five- 

 petalled. Female calyx and corol as in the male. Germ 

 single, two-celled, with one ovulum in each, suspended from 

 the top of the partition. Styles two, each two-cleft. Drupe, 

 with two very hard, one-celled nuts. Embryo converse and 

 furnished with a perisperm. 



A. triloba. Forst. gen. JST. 56. Willd. iv. 590. 



Caroirium. Rumph. Amb. ii. p. 180. t. 58. 



C. cordijoliiim. Gcert. Sem. ii. t. 125. 



Juglans Camirium. Lourier. Cochin Ch, 702. 



Croton moluccanum. Willd. iv, 551. 



Beng. Akroot, which is also the name of the common Wal- 

 nut. 



A large tree, now pretty common in gardens about Cal- 

 cutta, originally from the Malay countries. Flowering time 

 the hot season ; seed ripe in August. 



