530 PALME. | Caryota. 
CARYOTA, L. 
Flowers in the same spadix, monoecious, a female between 2 
males. Spathes several, the basilar ones complete. Males: calyx 
Albumen horny, ruminate. Embryo dorsal.—Elegant, 
pinnules, Flowers in spikes, forming nodding, large, simply- 
branched spadices. Berries globular or nearly so. 
Simple-stemmed ; male petals about } in. long by 3-4 lin. broad ; 
anthers acuminate ‘ : : : . ; : . C. urens. 
Soboliferous; male petals about 4 lin. long by only 1} lin. broad ; : 
anthers mucronulate to emarginate - + + °* * C. sobolifera- 
pinnules narrow - to broad-cuneate with the outer edge caudate- 
acuminate, obliquely truncate and lobed at the erose-toothed ends, 
4-8 in. long, the terminal pinnules broadly cuneate, me ; 
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flowers rather large, yellow, the petals elliptically sate ten: 
i inate ; 
flowers greenish, often purplish outside, much smaller ; petals only 
Haz.—Frequent in the upper mixed forests of the Pegu Yomah and. Ava-~ 
Fl. Sept.—l.—SS.=SiS. CaS. oer 
—Wood very fibrous and hard, siliceous. Trunks we ates 
for water-buckets and water-trains. The pith yields sago- Yields also toc’ 
The leaves yield the kittul fibre of commerce. 
2. C. sobolifera, Wall—An evergreen soboliferous oF nd 
simple-stemmed palm (15—25 +12—15+1—14), the ote the 
ete, scurfy-downy ; leaves 4-8 ft. long, unpaired-bipunar’ 
