790 DioECiA H£XANDRIA. Fernola, 



of any person having- such a staff. The longer ones serve 

 for rafters to their houses, and the leaves for thatch. 



BORASSUS. Schrcb. gen. N. 1689. 

 Male spathe universal, many-leaved. Periaiith three- 

 leaved. Coro/ three-petalled. Female spathe ns in the male. 

 Perianth, or corol, or both, from eight to twelve-leaved. 

 Germ superior, three-celled ; cells one-seeded, attachment 

 interior. Drupe three-seeded. ^wi6ri/o in the apex of the 

 perisperm, 



B. flabelliformis. Willd. iv. 800. Corom, pi. i. N. 71 

 and 72. 



Lontarus domestica. Humph. Amh. i. t. 10. Gcert. Fruct. 

 21.<.3. 



Carimpana, Rheed, Mai. i. t. 9. the female tree; and Am- 

 para, 1. 10. the male. 



Sans. Tala. See Asiat. Res. iv. p. 311. 



Beng. Tal. 



Eng. Palmyra. 



Teling. Patoo-Tody, the name of the male tree, and Peuty 

 or Nama-Tody, the female. Common all over India. It flow- 

 ers in the hot season in Bengal, and the seeds ripen in August. 



FERRIOLA. R. 

 Male. Calyx and corol three-cleft. Female. Calyx 

 and corol three-cleft. Germ superior, three-celled; cells 

 two-seeded; attachment smperiov ; style s\ng]e. Rerry i'vom 

 one to three-seeded. Embryo inverse, amply furnished with 

 perisperm. 



F. huxifolia. Willd. iv.p. 798. R. Carom, pi. i. JST. 45. 



Trumbilli, that is Iron ivood, of the Tamuls. 



Pishinna of the Tclingas. 



Among the Circar mountains this grows to be a small tree, 



