732 



(Bull. Imp. Inst. vii. 1909, p, 61). Cultivated and run wild 

 in the plains of India and Ceylon (Watt, Comm. Prod. India 



p. 170.) 



Ref, — The Palmyra Palm, Borassus flabelliformis^ Ferguson, 



pp. 1-52 (Colombo, 1850 and 2nd ed. 1889), '' The Palmyra 



or Fan Palm/' in Diet. Econ. Prod. India, Watt, i. 1889, i^p. 



49;>-504. '' Palmyra Bass Fibre {Borassus flabelliformis),'^ 



Kew Bull. 1892, pp. 148-150. The Palmyra Palm ; Its 



Occurrence, Cultivation and Uses, Thurston, in The Agric. 



Ledger, No. 20, 1894, pp. 1-12. " Palmyra Fibre," Morris, 



in Journ. Soc. Arts, xliii. 1895, pp. 930-931. '' Borassua 



flabeUifer,'' (La Flore du Nord-Ouest de Madagascar), Jumelle, in 



Ann. Mus. Col. Marseille, v. 1907, pp. 372-389. " Borassn 



flabellifer;' in Comm. Prod, India, Watt, pp. 169-17L- 



*' Borassus flabellifer " (Contributions a Fetude anatomique des 

 plantes textiles Exotiques, Palmiers, &c.), Claverie, in Ann. Mus. 



Col. Marseille, vii. 1909, pp. 114-117. " Fecule de Borassus 



flabellifer,'' Planchon & Juillet in Ann. Mus. Col. Marseille, vii. 



1909, pp. 504-507. " The Bud-Rot of Palms in India," Butler, 



in Memoirs Dept. Agric, India, Bot. Series, iii, Sept. 1910, pp. 



221-280. '' The Manufacture of Palm Sugar in Upper Burma," 



Aubert, in Agric. Journ, India, vi. 1911, pp. 3G9-376, illustrated. 

 — — ^" Arrack Distillery in Negombo," in Report on a Visit of 

 Investigation to a few parts of India and Ceylon, Dupont, 



pp. 35-37 (Seychelles, 1912). '' Palmyra Palms," in Bull. Imp. 



Inst. X. 1912, p. 326; from Indian Forester, xxxviii. 1912, p. 51. 



** Borassus flabellifer/' " Leaves from Mozambique," Bulk 



Tni23. Inst. x. 1912, pp. 377-378, with analyses for manufacture 



of Paj)cr. '^ Le Ronier et la Valeur de ses Noix," De Giron- 



court, in La Geographie, xv. Jan. 1912^ pp. 50-52; abstract in 



Bull. Bur. Agric. Inst. Rome, iii. 1912, pp. 953-954.^ 



" Borassus flabellifer^'' *' The Palms of British India and 

 Ceylon," Blatter, in Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xxi. 1912, 



pp. 930-968. " Borassus flabellifer (Studio sui Borassus : De- 



scrizionedi unGenere Kuovo Asiatico di Borasseae)," Beccari, in 

 Webbia (Edit, Martelli, Firenze) iv. part 2, 1914 pp. 304-32L 



'' Uses of the Palmyra Palm/' Journ. Roy. Soc. Arts, Ixiv. 



Jan. 7th, 1916, pp. 151-152. 



Hyphaene, Gaertn. 



Hyphaene thebaica, 3farf.; FL Trop. Afr. VIII. p, 120. 



//L— Duhamel, Traite des Arbres, iv. tt, 1, 2, 3; Dehle, 

 Egypt, tt. 1-2 {Cucifera thebaica)] Diet. Sc. Nat. tt. 28, 29 

 {Douma thebaica, Cucifera thebaica) \ Martins, Palm. iii. tt. 131- 

 133; Fl. des Serres, xi. 1875, tt. 2152-3; Karst. & Schcnch, Yeg. 

 bild, ii. t. 55; Woodrow, Gard. Tropics, p. 576; Agric. Col. 

 Italy, ii. 1908, t. 2, f. 1 (section of fruit); Journ. Bombay, N.H. 



Soc. xxi. 1912, t. 35. 



Venmc. names. — Goriba (Hausa, Dalziel); [Mohamma (B 



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ber), Seehhehb (Tigre) Speke <h Graiit]; Dum or Doum (Sudan ^ 



