THE PALMS OF BRITISH I^DIA A D CEYLON. 509 



In Guinea'. Toehn — Tis. 



In Angola : Dihoho. 



In the Island of St. Thomas: Dendenor Palmeira Andim. 



loi tSurioiatn : Aaavora, avuara, avoora, avouara, maba, obe. 



Of the yellow fat oil from the saecocarp : 

 Latin : Biityrum paling, Oleum elaeidis, oleum expressum 



palmse, oleum palmae. 

 I^nglish : Macaw. fat, palm oil. 

 French : Beurre de palme, beurre de palmier, beurre de Galam, 



graisse d'Ashantis, huile de palme, huile de palmier, huile de 



Senegal, pumicin. 

 German : Palmbutter, Palmfett, Palmoel. 

 Dutch : Afrikaansche palmolie, olie van Senegal, palmboomolie 



palmolie, palmvet. 



Of a white fat oil made from the kernels : 



English : Palm kernel oil, palm seed oil. 



French : Beurre de Galaham, huile de palmiste, huile de pepin 

 de palme. 



German : Galahambutter, Palmkernenoel. 



Dutch : Palmpittenvet, palmkernvet. 



Description : — Stem robust, 20-50 feet high, sometimes reaching 

 85 feet, always quite straight, usually f-1 foot in diameter, and 

 about 3^ feet just above the ground, annutate, bearing the remains 

 of old leaves when young, never soboliferous. Leaves show their 

 normal dimensions only after 6 or 8 years. Leaves on adult palm 

 20-40, forming a terminal crown, 10-17 feet long. Leaflets 100- 

 1 60 pairs, lanceolate-linear, those in the middle of the leaves 2-4> 

 feet long and l-|-2 inches wide, those on the lower third If- 2^ feet 

 long and |-1 inch wide. Petiole robust, 7-4 feet long, ^-| foot 

 broad, suddenly broadened at the base, convex and often white to- 

 mentose below, yellowish green, spiny on the margins, spines 

 50-60 pairs. 



Spadices interfoliar, arising below the terminal bud sometimes to 

 the number of 6 or 8 at the same time, the male ones always pre- 

 ceding the female hj several weeks or even months ; peduncle 

 robust, compressed, ^-^ feet long, l-|-2 inches broad and | inch 

 thick, spathe ^-1 foot fong, i-^ foot broad, coriacious floccose-tomen- 

 tose on the outer surface. Male spadix : Flowering part forming an 

 ovoid mass, rarely oblong or subspherical-compressed, ^-| foot long, 

 5-7 inches broad and ^-^ foot thick, with many branches bearing 

 densely imbricate flowers. Branches brown cylindric, subtriquetrous 

 or flattened by mutual compression ; ^-^ foot long. Flowers very 

 numerous, densely arranged in 20 longitudinal lines at least in the 

 upper part. Sepals 3, free to the base, oblong, obtuse, greyish. 



