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lous. Flowers moncBcious, solitary and nude, or ternate with the 

 central flower female. Male flowers symmetric : sepals ; 3, short, 

 rounded, coriaceous, closely imbricate ; petals 3, larger than the 

 sepals, linear-oblong or ovate-oblong, valvate ; stamens very many; 

 filaments very short ; anthers long ; pistillode 0. Female flowers 

 subglobose, smaller than the male ; sepals 3, ovate or orbicular, 

 concave, closely imbricate ; petals 3, rounded, valvate ; ovary 

 obovoid, 3-gonous, 3-celled ; ovule in each fertile cell solitary ; 

 stigma sessile, 3-lobed ; staminodes 3 or 6 or 0. 



Fruit globose, l-2-(rarely 3-j seeded, crowned by the stigma ; 

 sarcocarp full of raphides. Seed erect, albumen ruminate ; embryo 

 dorsal. 



Species about 12. Tropical Asia, Malaya and Australia. 



Cultivation in Europe. — The species of this genus form very 

 noble stove* palms. When in a young state, Caryotas serve as 

 excellent ornaments for dinner tables, etc. They thrive well in a 

 compost of loam and vegetable mould in equal parts, to which a 

 little sand may be added. Perfect drainage and much water during 

 the growing are necessary. Propagation is easily effected by seeds 

 or by suckers. 



* INDIGENOUS SPECIES. 



CARYOTA URENS, L. Fl. Zeyl. 187 ; Gaertn. Fruct. I., 20, t. 7 ; Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. III., 625 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III.. 193, t. 107 and 108, and 

 162; Griff, in Calcut. Journ. Nat. Hist. V., 479; Palms Brit. Ind. 159; 

 Thn. Enum. 329 ; Dalz. & Gibbs Bomb. Fl. 278 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III., 41; 

 Hook. Fl. Bnt. Ind. VI., 422 ; Brandis Ind. Trees, 654; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 IV., 324 ; Talb. Trees Bomb. ed. 2, 341 ; Prain Bengal PI. 1093 ; Cooke 

 Fl. Bomb. Pres II. 806.— Itheede Hort. Malab. I., t. 11. 



Names. — ^Fish-tail Palm, Hill Palm, Indian Sago Palm, Bastard 

 Sago Palm, East Indian Wine Palm, Jaggery Palm, Kittul Tree, 

 Toddy Palm, Wine Palm, Mhar Palm (English). 



Caryote brulant, faux sagonier de I'lnde, palmier celeri (French). 



Bastardsagopalme, Ostindische Brennpalme, Sagopalme (Ger- 

 man.) 



Jagerieboom, Nieboom, Sagueerboom, Wilde Sagueerboom 

 (Dutch). 



Mari (Hind.). 



Bherawa, berli, bhirli mahad, berli mad, bherla mada, berli mhar, 

 ardhi supari (Mar.). 



Birli mhad, birli mhar (Bombay). 



Shiwajata, shankar jata (Guj.). 



Birli mad (Konk.). 



Baini, bagni, beina, bhyni (Kan.). 



Mari-ka-jhar (Dec). 



Mhar mardi, mari, jirugu, jilugu, goragu, gorrega (Tel.). 



Conda-panna, eiin-panna, utalipanna, kundal-panai, thippali 

 (Tam.). 



