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Spreng. Syst. Veg. II, 138. No. 2; Roem. Schult. Syst. Veg. VII, 2., p. 1309, 

 No. 2; Hayne, Term. Bot. t. 11, f. 1 ; Houtt. I, t. 2, f. 2. — Licuala rotundi- 

 folia, Blume in litt. et in Roem. Schult. Syst. Veg. VII. 2, p. 1305, 

 No. 5 — Saribus rotundifolius, Blume Rumphia II, 49, t. 95, 96 (excl. folio 

 tab. 96). 



Names. — Wocka (in Termate and Celebes) ; Saligi, Pohon 

 Sadang (Java) ; Saribti (Macassar Strait). 



Desceiption. — Stem 40-50 feet high, 1-1^ foot and more in 

 diameter, erect or slightly bent, obscurely annulate. Leaves 3-5 

 feet in diameter, suborbicular ; segments between 60 and 90. 

 united in the lower third ; each segment bifid to the middle : 

 petiole 6 feet long, lower part armed with strong compressed 

 spines ; spines with a conical base, almost i inch long. Spadix 3-5 

 feet long, hanging from between the leaves, porphyry-red. Spathes 

 compressed-cylindric, obliquely truncate. Branches of the spadix 

 decompound, the last branchlets spreading, 3-8 inches long. 

 Flowers 3-4 aggregate, small, globose, yellow. Calyx tripartite, 

 segments broadly ovate, obtuse, concave, keeled on the back. 

 Corolla tripartite, segments triangular, a little larger than the 

 calyx. Filaments broadened at the base ; anthers subrotund. 

 Ovary turbinate, trisulcate, 2 carpels abortive ; styles connate : 

 stigma simple. Berry depressed-globose. Endocarp thin, brown. 

 Seed globose, ferruginous. 



Habitat. — Malay Archipelago. 



Uses. — The cellular tissue of the central part of the stem 

 furnishes sago (In the Malayan language ' sago ' means bread or 

 floiir) . 



CuLTiVATiOiS^ IN EuROPE. — This palm is pretty for stove decora- 

 tion, when young. 



LIVISTONA AUSTRALIS, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 241 ; Wendl. 

 and Drude in Linnsea XXXIX. 232 ; Bot. Magaz. t. 6274. — L. inennis, 

 Wendl. and Drude, 1. c. 22'd.—Corypha austvalis, R; Br. Fl. Nov. Holl. 

 26 f ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. II, 138, No. 2 ; Roem.Schult. Syst. Veg. VII, 2, 

 p. 1313, No. 11. 



Names. — Australian Cabbage Palm. ' Kondo " of the aborigi- 

 nals in Australia. 



