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IV. A Commentary on the Third Part of the Hortiis Malaharkus. 

 Bij Francis Hamilton, M.D. F.E.S. and L.S. 



Read December 7, 1824; and June 21, 1825. 



CoDUA Panna, p. 1. tab. 1 — 12. 



In mountainous stony places of Malabar I observed the Codda 

 Fanmi of the natives very common ; but I never observed it either 

 in flower or fruit, nor did I ever see its leaves so large as Rheede 

 describes them. The leaves which I saw were about the size of 

 those of the Borassus ftabelliformis ; that is, five or six feet in dia- 

 meter: and it must be observed, that Rheede states that it is only 

 when the tree is young (" antequam ullos emisit ramulos") that its 

 leaf is fourteen feet broad and eighteen long : "folia tamen cum 

 arbor ramos (stipites nempe) undique emittit, altiusque excres- 

 cat, sensim minora proferuntur." It is in this state alone that I 

 remember to have seen it. In my Journey to Mysore (ii. 488.) 

 I have given an account of the uses to which it is applied ; and 

 I must further observe that, notwithstanding its size and woody 

 texture, this plant, like our annuals of Europe, produces fruc- 

 tification only once, and then dies ; whereas many herbaceous 

 plants, as well as trees, continue to bud and flower every year 

 for ages. 



The generic name Panna is not peculiar to Palms, as the 

 author supposed ; but even in the Ilortus Malabaricus is given 

 to several Ferns. {Hort. Mai. xii. 31, 35, 61, 65, 67.) It is 



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