64'2 cocoACE^. 



Phcenix, L. fil, (Spreng. syst. 2, p. 13, No. 1339; — E/idl. gen. pi. 1, p. 

 253.) 



l.dactylifera, L. {Spreng. si/st. 2, p. 138; — Lam. ill. t. 893; — Giirtn. 

 fr. 1, p. 23, ^. 9, /. 1;—RQxh. fl. ind. 3, /?. 786 ;— /. Grah. Cat. B. 

 pi. p. 224.) Date-tree, b Tropical and Middle Asia. N. Africa. Deccan. 

 Baroda. Cultivated in S. Europe. Does not thrive in Lower Bengal. 

 In H. C. G. some male trees have lived to flower, soon after which, 

 however, they uniformly perished. The sap of this tree is seldom 

 employed, because the fruit is thereby injured. Baskets are made with 

 the leaf- stalks. 



2 farinifera, Roxb. (Corom. \, t. 74; fi. ind. 3, p. 785 ; — Spreng. syst. 

 2. p. 138.— P. pusilla, Gartn.fr. \, p. 24, t. 9, /. 2.~-Lour.) 5 San- 

 dy hills, at a short distance from the Sea, near Coringa. Fl. Jan. 

 and Feb. ; fr. May. Its stem contains facula, which is used as 

 food by the natives in times of famine. The leaflets are wrought 

 into mats, for sleeping on, &c. The common petioles are split into 

 three or four, and used to make common baskets of various kinds, 

 which, however, are inferior to those constructed of bamboo. Fruit 

 edible. (Roxb.) 



3. acaulis, Buch. (Roxb. fl. ind. 3, p. 783; — Spreng. syst. 2, p. 138.) 

 ^^^ ^^V^ Jung lee -khaj oar. 5 Behar. Fl. C. S. ; fr. April and May. 

 Fruit edible. (Roxb.) 



4. sylvestris, Roxb. {fl. ind. Z, p. 787 ,—J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 224.-— 

 Elate sylvestris, L. ; Spreng. syst. 2, p. 141 ; — Rheed. 3, t. 22-25, 

 incl.) ^t^? Khajoor. Wild Date, b Common all over India. Fl. 

 March, fr. C. S. This tree yields. Palm- wine during the C. S. But 

 free extraction destroys the appearance and fertility of the tree, the 

 fruit of those that have been cut for drawing off the juice being 

 very small. The mode of drawing off the juice is by removing 

 the lower leaves and their sheaths, and cutting a notch into 

 the pith of the tree near the top, whence it issues and is con- 

 ducted by a small channel made of a bit of the Palmyra palm-leaf 

 into a pot suspended to receive it. On the coast of Coromandel 

 this Palm-juice is either drunk fresh from the tree, or boiled down 

 into sugar, or fermented for distillation, when it gives out a large 

 portion of ardent spirit, commonly called Paria-aruk on the coast of 

 Coromandel. There as well as in Guzerat, and epecially in Bengal, 

 tlie Khajur is the only tree whose sap is much employed for boiHng 

 down to sugar, mixed more or less with the juice of the sugar-cane. 

 At the age of from 7-10 years, when the trunk of the trees will be 

 about 4 feet high, they begin to yield juice, and continue produc- 

 tive for 20 or 25 years. It is extracitcd from Nov. till Feb., during 

 which period, each tree is reckoned to yield from 120 to 240 pints of 

 juice, which averages 180 pints. Every 12 pints or pounds is boil- 

 ed down to one of Goor or Jagari, and 4 of this yield one of good 



