729 



H 



Ann. Mil-*. 



Col, Marseille, v. 1907, p. 379, f. 3, p. 385, f. 4; viii. 1910, p. 46, 

 f, 11 (in Madagascar); Butlor, Memoirs Dej^t. Agric. Bot. Scrie,-,. 

 India, iii. 1910, t. 1 (Palmyras in Godavari) ; Journ. Bombay, 

 N.H. Soc. xxi. 1912, tt. 38, 39; De Wildeman,' Mission E, Laurent, 



p, 25 



(flabellifi 



fruit) ; pp. 297, 329 {aetliiopum, fruit). 



Yernac, names, — Giginia (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Dutbi (Fufuldoy 

 N, Nigeria, Dalziel); Sibboo Colom (Gambia, Moloney,) Vjye- 

 tjo (E, Africa, Schumacher & Thonnivg) ; M'Vooma, Meelalla 

 (Unyam-wezi, Spele <fc Grant) ; Morintshi (Nupe, Barter) ; 

 [Agbon Olodu, Igoti (Yoruba), Oluwa (Benin), Kube (Akwapim), 

 Ma Kube (Ashanti) Thompson] ; Deleb (Nile region, Speke <b 

 Grant); Deleib (Sudan, Col. Rep. Ann. No. 778, 1913, p. 44); 

 Taubin (Burma, Aubert); Ronier (French, De Gironcourt). — - 

 Palmyra Palm, Black Run Palm; African Fan Palm. 



Native of India, Cejdon and Tropical Africa; in West Africa 

 from Senegal to the Cameroons, in the Nile Land, the Congo and 

 Mozambique District. Introduced to the Seychelles. 



Almost every part of this palm is put to some use; it is 

 in the hinterlands, of practically the same value to the natives 

 as the Coco-nut is nearer the sea. The pericarp of the fruit is 

 edible. Gold Coast (Thompson), French West Africa (de Giron- 

 court) and the kernels are only eaten when quite young (Ibid.) ; 

 fruit edible and pleasant, though with a slight terebinthine 

 flavour; pulp beaten with milk in Hausa. Root-buds of seeds — 

 spindle-shaped bodies — are roasted and eaten and are very 

 palatable (Baikie, I.e. p. 104) in Nigeria — there is a bundle of 

 G done up something Kke leeks in this country^ (collected by Barter 

 in Nupe) in the Museum at Kew — also eaten in India and Ceylon. 

 The leaves are used for thatching and for manufacturing into 

 many useful articles, as Cowrie purse — ^made of the cuticle of 

 the leaf — Niger (Barter) bags, mats, fans, rice sifters, provision 

 baskets, etc. A salt is prepared from the leaves by the Pagans 



r 



Fulani in N. Nigeria (Dalziel, Kew 



Walkin 



Ronier 



Siamese and Hindoo 



books from the leaves and an ink-pot (Mohammedan) made of 

 the seeds from the Gambia are in the Museum at Kew. The 

 kernels have been suggested as a substitute for '' Coroso," '' Veget- 

 able Ivory " or " Ivory Nut " {Phytelephas macrocarpa) and a 

 price of £16 per ton was offered (1912) at Hamburg (De Giron- 

 court, Ann. Sci. Agron. Paris, Oct, 1913, " The Palmyra and 

 Dum Palms in West Africa, pp. 408-419 : Bull. Bur. Agric. 

 Inst, Rome, v. 1914, p. 82), their dirty yellow tint detracts from 

 their value ; but they appear to be regarded as a valuable asset 

 to French West Africa (I.e. and in La Geographie, Paris, Jan. 1912,. 

 pp. 50-52). A report on " Deleib " nuts from the Sudan (1912) 

 at the Imperial Institute was that "they were too fibrous to 

 be of value for button-making and there seems no prospect of 



