THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON, 387 



species is said to be established in Ceylon. In California, where 

 nearly all the palms of temperate regions grow vigorously, it has 

 not proved a success. It is cultivated in the gardens of Southern 

 France and the Riviera where the tree is known under the names 

 of Sahal imibraculifera and Sahal GiesbrecjliUi. 



Beccari recommends the introduction and acclimatization of this 

 palm in the vast barren marshes of southern Italy and Siciljr, not 

 only because the Cabbage Palmetto is propagated very easily, but 

 also on account of its economic uses. 



iLLUSTfiATiON. — The Cabbage Palmetto of Plate XXXI is grow- 

 ing at Peradeniya. We have to thank Mr. Macmillan for taking 

 the photograph. 



SABAL MAURITIJEFORMIS, Gr. and Wendl. in Griseb. Fl. Brit- 

 West. Ind. 514 ; Drude in Engl. imdPrantl, Pflanzenf. I, 36, f . 27;Becc.. 

 in Webbia II (1907), 61. 



Trithrinax mauriticeformis, Karsten in Flora, vol. 28 (1856), 244 and 

 in Fl. Columb. Sp. select. II, 137, t. OLXXII. 



Sabcd glaucescens, Lodd. ex Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 247 ? fide Griseb, 



Name. — -Savannah Palm. 



Description. — Trunk cylindric, columnar, distinctly annular- 

 cicatricose (the rings 6 inches distant), 60-80 feet high, 12 inches 

 in diameter. Leaves very large. Petiole long and comparativel}' 

 slender, fugaceously furfuraceo-cinerescent on the lower side, about 

 1^ inches broad, much depressed, flat above in the upper part, 

 slightly convex on the underside with the margins very acute. 

 Ligule well developed, 2 inches long ; i^hachis considerably elongate 

 and arcuate. Limb quite glabrous, measuring about 6f feet from' 

 the apex of the petiole to the end of the median segments, rigid- 

 papyraceous, but thin, green above, distinctly paler and almost 

 giaucescent below, divided into many broad lacinise down to almost 

 the lower fifth ; lacinise 2|-2| inches broad, with their sides 

 parallel or slightly divergent up to about 1^ feet from the apex ; 

 here they are once more divided into two lacinise which in their 

 turn about 8 inches higher up are divided into 2 very acuminate 

 flaccid points ; the limb, therefore, is three times divided and there 

 are 3 sinuses ; sometimes 2 primary segments are united with 



