418 PALM*:. \Corypka. 



Ceylon, measured : height of stem 84 feet, of flower panicle 21 feet, total 105 feet ; 



firth at 3 feet from the ground round the persistent bases of the leaves 13 feet 

 inches, at 21 feet from the ground 8 feet 3 inches ; age about 40 years. The 

 leaves are very large, often 10 feet in diameter ; they are made into fans, mats and 

 umbrellas, and are used for writing on, as also are those of C. Taliera. A kind 

 of 'sago is yielded by the pith. 

 W 867. South Kanara. 

 Kurz joins C. Taliera with this and C. data with C. Gebanga. 



3. CHAM.EROPS, Linn. 



Of Chamcerops, two or three species occur in India. C. Martiana, Wall 

 Brandis 546. Vena. Jhaugra, jhaggar, tal, Kumaun ; Taggu, Nep., is a talll 

 handsome palm, found on the Thakil mountain in East Kumaun, at from 6,500 to 7,800 

 feet elevation, in damp, shady glens, with a north-west aspect. It is also found in 

 one or two minor localities in Kumaun and in Nepal , and is, besides, considered to 

 be probably the same as, C. khasyana, Griff. ; Kurz i. 527. Vern. Pakha, found in 

 the Khasia Hills and on the hills of Martaban at 4,000 to 6,500 feet. The 

 writer has once found small plants of what is probably this palm on Rissoom, near 

 Dumsong, beyond Darjeeling, at 6,500 feet elevation. C. Ritchieana, Griff. ; Brandis 

 547. Vern. Mazri, nozardi, Trans-Indus ; Kilu, kaliun, Salt Kange ; Pfis, pesh, 

 pease, pharra, Sind, Beluch., is a generally stemless, gregarious shrub, peculiar to 

 the arid zone of Sind, Trans-Indus, the Punjab, Afghanistan and Beluchistan. Its 

 leaves are used to make matting, fans, sandals, baskets, hats and other articles ; its 

 leaves and leafstalks give a fibre which is made into ropes, and its seeds' are pierced 

 and made into rosaries, and for sale for that purpose are exported from the Beluchi port of 

 Gwadur to Mecca. (A beautiful collection of the products of this palm [P 1779] was 

 sent to the Paris Exhibition of 1878 from the Punjab, chiefly from the Salt Kange.) 



4. LIVISTONA. R. Br. 



Livistona Jenkinsiana, Griff. ; Gamble 86. Vern. Talainyom, tulac-myom, pur- 

 bong, Lepcha ; Toko pat, Ass., is an extremely handsome fan-leaved palm found in 

 the forests of the Sivoke Hills in Sikkim and eastwards to Assam, where it is com- 

 monest in Nowgong and the Naga Hills. The leaves are largely used by Lepchas 

 for thatching and for umbrellas, in Assam for the roofs of huts, boats and doolies, 

 and for the large Naga hats (often 3 to 4 feet in diameter, and called jhapics), and 

 umbrellas (Nos. E 1728 to 1731, Assam). The tree reaches 30 feet in height, the wood 

 is very soft, with white fibro-vascular bundles (No. E 2461, Sivoke Hills, Darjeeling). 

 L. speciosa, Kurz, Journal As. Soc. Beng., xliii. ii., p. 204 ; For. Fl. ii. 526. Vern. 

 T/talu, Magh ; Tau-htam, Burm., is an evergreen, lofty palm of the forests of Chittagong 

 the Pegu Yoma and Upper Tenasserim. Its leaves are sometimes used for thatching 

 in Chittagong, instead of those of Licuala. 



5. LICUALA, Rumph. 



Licuala contains three Indian species. L. paludosa, Griff. ; Kurz ii. 528, is au 

 evergreen, gregarious palm of the tidal swamps of the Andamans. L. peltata, Koxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 179; Kurz ii. 527. Vern. Patti, chattah-pat, Ass.; Ktinid, kurkuti, 

 lleng. ; Sa-lu, Burin. , Kapadah, And. is a peltate-leaved palm of the foivsts of Assam, 

 Eastern Bengal, Chittagong, Burma and the Andamans, said to extend westward as 

 far as Sikkim. It is used in Assam for umbrellas, and in (he Andamans for i hatching 

 (B 1046, Andamans). In Chittagong it forms a great part of tin- undergowth in some of 

 the forests, notably the Kasalong Reserve, and its loaves, under the name of Ktiruchlipat 

 a ru universally used in the inner Hill Tracts lor thatching and when gm.ss is scarce 

 are largely exported to the plains. The stems are about 9 to 12 indies in girth, and f 

 to 15 feet high ; t lie wood is rather soft, and the vascular bundles evenly dist ribnted, and 



dtek coloured (E 3j$6 Kwalong Bwerye, Ohitt^jjong). L. A^////>r.v, ijriif. ; Km-/ ii. 



is found in Mcrgui. The well-known walking sticks called ' I'enang Lawyers' arc 

 the young trunks of L. acutijida, Mart., a very small palm of the Malay LVnin.->ula. 



