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SAGO PALM.—SAGUS. 



Natural order, Filices, or Ferns. A genus of 



the Dicecia Polyandria class. 



Cycus revoluta, N arrow-leaved Cycus. 



This nutritious and restorative vegetable 

 diet is better known than the tree that pro- 

 duces such an abundant and wholesome me- 

 dulla, or pith. 



This species of the palm grows naturally 

 in Japan, and upon the rocky dry mountains 

 of Malabar, as also in the Friendly Islands, 

 and the New Hebrides. 



As a native of these warm countries it can 

 only be cultivated in England in the hot- 

 house ; where, from the size of the plant, it 

 requires too much room and height to be 

 brought to perfection ; and as the valuable 

 part of the plant can be imported in perfec- 

 tion, there is no other inducement to fill our 

 stoves with this bulky exotic, but that of its 

 extreme beauty. 



