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of India, Watt, pp. 882^885 (Murray, London, 1908). " Culti- 

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pp. 283-286. " Phoenix dacUflifera;' in '' The Palms of 



British India and Ceylon," Blatter, in Journ, Bombay Nat. 



Hist. Soc. XX. 1911, pp. 680-694. Date Growing: In the 



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 with descriptions of 90 of the most important varieties of dates 

 fai the United States (West India Gardens, Publishers, Altadena, 



California, 1913).— The Date Sugar Industry in Bengal; An 



Investigation into Its Chemistry and Agriculture, Annett, Lile 

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No. 6, March 1913, pp. 1-389; pis. i.-ix, "The Propagation 



)f the Date Palm," Ralph, in Pomona College Journ. Economic 



3ot. iii. No 



(< 



The Sex of Date 



Palm Seedlings," in Kew Bull. 1914, pp. 159-162. "The 



Effect of Climatic Conditions on the Rate of Growth of Date 

 Palms,'* Vinson, in The Bot. Gazette, Chicago, Ivii. No. 4, April, 

 1914, pp. 324-327.— '' The Date Palm in Egypt," Brown, in 

 Agric. Journ, Egypt, v. parts 1 and 2, 1915 (Cairo 1916), pp. 63-79, 

 pL xi; vi. 1916, (Cairo 1917), pp. 18-38.^— " Dates from the 



Sudan," Bull. Imp. Inst. xiv. 1916, pp. 585-589. " The 



Date Palm in Egypt," Agric. News, Barbados, xvi. May 5th, 1917, 



p. 139. A Report on Experiments on the Improvement of 



the Date Palm Sugar Industry in Bengal, Annett, Pal & Chatterjee, 

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pp. 69-116. ^The Date Palm and its Cultivation in the Punjab, 



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Phoenix reclinata, Jacq, ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VIII. p. 103, 



///. — Jacq. Fragm, Bot. t, 24; Martins, Palm. iii. t. 164; 

 ill. Hort, 1859, p. 85; Fl. & Pom. 1871, p. 135; Kerchove, 

 Palmiers, t. 22, f. 121; Beccari, Malesia, iii. t. 44, f. 1 (parts of 

 fruit, &c.) ; Gartenfl. xxxvi. 1887, p, 477 ; p. 479, f, 122 

 {P. spinosa); Notizbl, Bot, Gart. Beriin, No. 45, 7th Nov. 1909, 

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 <P. spinosa); Bull. Agric. Congo Beige, iii. 1912, p. 996. 



Ve7 7iac. names. — Ekkehobi (Yoruba, Unumi); Ngalu (Awka, 

 4^. Nigeria, Thomas); Makindu (Victoria Nyanza, Daire); Sundu- 

 tuudu (Niger, Barter) ; [Okun (Yoruba), Okukon (Benin) Thompsonl. 



Boimy and generally in the Niger Delta. Found in Senegal^ 

 iSierra Leone, Gold Coast, in the Nile Land, Lower Guinea, 

 C'engo, Mozambique and S. Africa. 



The fruits are eaten. River Nun (Barter, Mus. Kew), also in 

 Sierra Leone where the leaves are used to make' hats (Oldfield, 

 Herb. Kew) ; fruits much liked by the natives in Accra, where the 

 young leaflets before the leaves expand are used for the plaiting 

 of hats and caps (Mann & Wendland, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 

 (1864) p. 425); leaves extensively employed in Nupe and Zaria 

 ior making fine mats (Baikie, Technologist, iii. 1863, p. 104) 

 /ind the palm on the Victoria Nyanza— where it is common — • 



