PART III. 



OTHER SUGAR-PRODUCING PALMS. 



Phoenix sylvestris or the wild date is practically the only palm 

 used for sugar production in Bengal. It is also the commonest one 

 used for this purpose in Mysore but it is very little used elsewhere 

 in India. There are various palms whose juice is used in India for 

 the production of sugar. 



Borassus flabelliformis. The fan palm or common toddy palm 

 is the one most used for sugar production in Madras and Burma. 1 

 It is also used to a small extent for this purpose in the Sunderbans. 



Cocos nucifera. The coconut palm is used to a large extent in 

 Madras for the manufacture of sugar, though it is not so much used 

 there as the fan palm. 



Nipa fruticans. This plant grows in low lying lands by the 

 sea in the Sunderbans, Chittagong, Burma and the Andaman 

 Islands. An alcoholic drink is made from it and I understand a small 

 amount of sugar also. In the Philippine Islands it is used to a 

 considerable extent for sugar making and alcohol 2 production. 



Gary ota Urens, the sago palm of India, is used to a small extent 

 in Madras. It has been credited with enormous yields at Malabar. 



Arenga saccharifera is not used in India for sugar production 

 but is much used for this purpose in the Dutch East Indies. 3 Rob- 

 inson 4 remarks that these last two palms merit the attention 

 of the Bengal planters. 



1 Agricultural Journal of India, Vol. VI, Part IV, p. 369. 

 * Philippine Jour, of Soi., April 1911, Vol. VI, No. 2, p. 110. 

 8 Jour. Roy. Soc. of. Arts, April 21st, 1911. 

 Prise Essay, 1858. 



