638 cocoACE^. 



Cat. B. pi p. 226 ■,—Gartn.fr. \,p. 20, t. l,f. 3 \—Jacq.fragm. hot. 

 t. 12, /. 1 i—Lam. ill. t. 897 i—Rheed. 1, t. II;— Rumph. 1, t. 14.) 

 b Moluccas. Coromandel. The Ghauts and Concans. Cultivated here. 

 Fl. small, greenish-white, H. and R. S. This palm, where it grows in 

 abundance, is highly valuable to the natives. It yields them, during 

 the hot season, an immense quantity of sap. The constituents of this, 

 as well as that of the preceding species, being such as may easily be 

 made to undergo the fermentation process, we find that, instead of 

 being boiled down to procure sugar, the sap is allowed to undergo the 

 vinous fermentation, when it forms Palm-wine, often called Toddy. 

 This being distilled, yields the spirit called Arrack, from the Arabic 

 Aruk, the general term for spirit. The best trees will yield at the rate 

 of 100 pints of sap in the 24 hours. The pith of the trunk of old 

 trees is said to be equal to the best sago. The natives make it into 

 bread, or boil it into thick gruel. {Roxb. Royle.) 



2. horrida, Jacq. {fragm. hot. p. 20 ; — Sprang, syst. 2, p. 623.) b Cara- 

 cas. Has been introduced into H. C. G. Fl. ? 



3. soboUfera, Wall. Mauritius. 



B. Lepidocary'e^. 

 (Lepidocaryinse, Mart.; — Endl. gen.pl. 1, p. 248.) 

 Calamus, L. {Spreng. syst. 2, p. 3, No. 1156; — Endl. o. c. p. 249.) Ratan. 

 l.humilis, Roxb. {fl. ind. 3, p. 773.) B Chittagong. Introduced into 

 H. C. G. in 1801, but had not fl. up to 1814. 



2. erectus, Roxb. {fl. ind. 3, p. 774.) % Silhet. Introduced into H. C. 

 G. in 1811. Fl. ? The poorer natives use the seeds as a substitute for 

 Betel-nut, {Roxb.) 



3. Draco, Willd. {Spreng. syst. 2, p. 17 ;—Schult. syst. 8, p. 1323 ; — 

 Roxb.fl. ind. S, p. 774; — Rumph. 5, t. 58, f. 1.) L. B v.-/ Moluccas. 

 Sumatra. Fl. March and April. The resinous, reddish-coloured sub- 

 stance, called Dragon s Blood, is produced in the Isle of Socotora by 

 Dracaena Draco ; but in Sumatra and the Malay Islands, varieties of a 

 similar substance are yielded by the Calamus Draco. {Royle.) 



4,lati/olius, Roxb. {fl. ind. 3, p. 775.) L, B v_^ Chittagong. Introduced 



into H. C. G. in 1801, and fl. for the first time in Nov. and Dec. 



1809. 

 5. rudentum, Lour. {Spreng. syst. 2, p. 17 ; — Schult. syst. 8, p. 1327 ; — 



Roxb. fl. ind. 3, p. 776 ;—J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 225 ;— Rumph. 5. 



/. 53.) L. B v^ Moluccas. Cochin China. Introduced into H. C. G. 



in 1798, where after 13 years it fl. for the first time in H. S. 

 6.verus, Lour. {Spreng. I. e. ; — Schult. syst. 8, p. 1323; — Roxb. fl. 



ind. 3, p. 776 ; — Rumph. 5, t. 54, /. 2.) L. B v_/ Moluccas. Cochin 



China. Introduced into H. C. G. in 1798, and began to fl. 12 years 



after. 

 7. extensus, Roxb. {fl. ind. 3,]^. 777.) L. B v-^ Silhet. Introduced into 



H. C. G. in 1811. Fl. ? 



