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triangular, vulvate ; staminodes many or ; ovary subglobose, 

 o-celled ; stigmas conic. 



Fruit obovoidly globose, 2-3-seeded; stigmas terminal. Seeds 

 compressed or plano-convex ; albumen equable ; embryo dorsal. 

 Species about 10. Tropical Asia, Malaya, Australia. 



Leaflets 4-fariously fascicled ... ... A. saccharifera. 



Leaflets bifarious ... ... ... ... A. obhcsifolia 



Leaflets alternate .. . ... ... ... A. unghtii 



* INDIGENOUS SPECIES. 



ARENGA SACCHARIFERA, Labill. in Mem. Inst. Fr. IV, 209 ; Mart 

 Hist. Nat. Palm. 191, t. 108 and 161, f. 4 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 35; 

 Kurz For. Fl. II, 534 ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 472 ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 164, t. 135 A ; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 421 ; Brandis Ind. Trees, 

 €48. — A. griffithii, Seem, ex H. Wendl. in Kerchov. Palm. 232. — Sccffuerus 

 rumphii, Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, 626. — S. saccharifer , Wurmb. Verb. Bat. 

 Genootsch, I, 350 ; Blume Rumphia II, 128, t. 123, 124. — Gomutus saccha- 

 rifer, Spreng. Syst. II, 622. — Borassus c/otnutus, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. II, 

 759. — Caryota onusta, Blanco, Fl. de Filip. ed. I, 741. 



Names of the tree.— -Sago Palm, Malay Sago Palm, Sugar 

 Palm, Gomuti Palm, Areng Palm (English). 



Arbre au sagou, Aren a sucre, Areng, Gomonto, Gomuti, Lantar, 

 Lontar, l^almier areng, Palmier condiar, Palmier a sucre, Rondier 

 (French). 



Echte Zuckerpalme, Gomutipalme, Sagwirepalme, Zuckerpalme 

 (German). 



Aren, Arenboom, Areng, Arengboom, Arengpalm, Arenpalm, 

 Gamoetoeboom, Gomoetipalm, Gomoetoepalm, Sagoeweerpalm, 

 Sagueer-boom (-palm), Saguweerpalm, Suikerbooni (Dutch). 



Taung-ong (Burma). 



Anan (Malay). 



Aren, Duk, Lirang, Kolang kaling, Buwah atap (Java). 



Dhuk, Edhuk (Madur). 



Kawung (Sunda Isl.). 



Names of the soft hroum scurf at the base of the fetioles. — Barum 

 (Malay). 



Names of the Fibre. — Ejoo fibre, Gomuta fibre, Gomuti fibre, 

 Gomutie, Gomuto fibre, Vegetable bristles, Vegetale horsehair 

 (English). 



Baleine vegetale, Coir, Orin vegetal, Gomoeti, Gomotuh, Gomuti 

 (French). 



Eju, Ejufasern, Ejuh, Goafasern, Gomutifasern (German). 

 Doek (in Java). 



Gemoeti, Gomoeti(e), Gomoeto(e), Plantaardig plantenhaar, 

 Plantaardige borstels, Plantenhaar (Dutch), 



Names of the Sugar. — Jaggery. Gomuti Palm Sugar (English). 



Gaulaitam (French). 



Palmzucker, Sagueerzucker (German). 



