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Arensuiker, Bruine suiker, Jagerij, Javaansche suiker, Zwarte 

 suiker (Dutch). 



Names of the Sago or Sago Flour. — Farine de Sagou (French). 



Ostindische Graupen, 0. Tapiocca, Ostindischer Sago, Palmen- 

 starke, Sago (German). 



Bloem van sagoe, Oostindischesago, Pahnensago, Sagoe, Sago, 

 Sagoemeel, Sagomeel (Dutch). 



Names of Palm Wine or Toddy. — Vin de palme, Sagouer, Vin 

 de Saguere (French). 



Palmenwein, Palmwein, Toddy (German). 



Kolwater, Palmwijn, Sagoeweer, Sagoweer, Sagueer (Dutch). 



Tuwak, Nera (Malay), 



The liquor obtained by the tnaceration of the Fruit is called.. — 

 Hell Water, Infernal Water (English). 



Eau infernale (French). 



Helsch Water (Dutch). 



Description. — A beautiful and magnificent palm, trunk 20-40 

 feet high, very stout. Crown oblong, very dense, of a sombre 

 aspect, leaves many and large, 20-28 feet long and 10 broad, 

 outline oblong-ovate, petiole very stout, channelled at the base, 

 sprinked with blackish scurf; leaflets up to 115 on each side, 

 3-5 feet long, subsessile, linear, 4-5-fariously fascicled, coriaceous, 

 variously toothed towards the tip, base 1-2-auricled, dark-green 

 above, white beneath, costa stout, scurfy beneath. 



Spadices several, axillary, 6-10 feet long, branched, branches 

 attenuate at the apex, and then furnished with a few rudimentary 

 flowers, slender, pendulous. Male and female flowers together ^ on 

 most branches, one sex generally preponderating. Male flowers 

 very niimerous, oblong, club-shaped, of a rich purple black colour 

 and a disagreeable smell, of considerable size, often 1 inch long ; 

 sepals 3, rounded, broad, imbricate ; petals nearly 3 times as long, 

 oblong, valvate ; stamens numerous ; filaments short, slender ; 

 anthers nearly as long as the petals, apiculate ; pistillode 0. Female 

 flowers solitary, large, 1 inch in diameter. Sepals 3, very broad; 

 petals 3, cordate-ovate, coriaceous. Staminodes ; ovary shortly 

 obturbinate,3-celled, apex 3-lobed, concave in the centre; stigmas 

 3, tooth-shaped, triangular, erect ; down the back of the lobes which 

 are opposite the sepals, runs a slight keel. 



Fruit 2-2^ inches long, oblong-turbinate, surrounded at the base 

 by the perianth, apex flat or nearly concave, marked with 3 lines, 

 running from the backs of the persistent stigmas to the now nearly 



i Brandis (Indian Trees, p. 648) says, that most branches bear male and female 

 flowers, whilst Hooker (riora Brii. Ind. VI, 421), speaks of the " male spadix." 

 Does Hooker caU it "male spadix" because the spadix bears only male flowers or 

 because the male flowers pi'ij.ci.c.erate ? — Drude (Palmse, in Pflauzenfamihen II, 

 pt. 3, p. 54) when giving the general characteristics of Arenga, says that the 

 padices are unisexual by abortion This is often the case, but not always. 



