30,4 COMPOUND PRODUCTS. CHAP. I. 



species of Palms growing in the Moluccas and 

 several other East Indian islands, by the following 

 process. The stem, being first cut into pieces of 

 five or six feet in length, is split longitudinally so as 

 to expose the pith, which is now taken out and 

 pounded, and mixed with cold water, which after 

 being well stirred up deposits at length a sedi- 

 ment that is separated by deeantation, and is the 

 starch which the pith contained, or the sago of the 

 shops. 



Salop. Salop is also a species of starch that is prepared, 



in the countries of the East, from the root of the 

 Orchis Morio, mascula, bifolia, and pyramidalis. 



Cassava/ So also is Cassava, which is prepared from the root 

 of Jatropha Manihot, a native of America, the ex- 

 pressed juice of which is a deadly poison used by 

 the Indians to poison their arrows ; but the sedi- 

 ment which it deposits is a starch that is manufac- 

 tured into bread retaining nothing of the deleteri- 



Sowans. ous property of the juice; and so also is Sowans, 

 which is prepared from the husk of Oats as obtained 

 in the process of grinding, and much used among 

 the peasantry of Scotland as an article of food. 



List of The following is a list of plants from the roots of 



coma^ning which, according to Parmentier, starch may be ex- 

 tracted. 



Arctium Lappa, Polygonum Bistort a, 



Atrbpa Belladonna, Bryonia alba, 



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