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distinguishable by its large, spreading leaves. Mart. Palm 231. 

 After the white inflorescence on the top has been fully developed,, the 

 tree dies. In Bombay, not common. We- have seen one in a gar- 

 den in Nesbit Lane, Mazagon, north side. In the town of Nagam, 

 in Angrias Colaba, it is often to be seen in the gardens attached to 

 the houses, and more thinly scattered in some other parts of Cola- 

 ba; the leaves are used for writing on with an iron s.tyle, and the 

 Ooria-bearers or Hamals in Calcutta may often be seen keeping 

 their own or their master's accounts on these leaves. Be it noted 

 that with the Oorias or Oripa men, the art of writing seems to be 

 as common as it is in the Southern Konkun. 



TALIERA, Mart, Hexandria Monogynia. Its vernacular name 

 in Bengal. 



2. T Bengalensis, Spr., Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2, p 174; Cor. PI. 3, 

 t. 25 to 256. — This Palm has been introduced into the Hewra 

 Garden by seed from Calcutta. It is yet too small for original 

 description (?). Is it to be found in Bombay, we have as yet 



OREODOXA, Willd. Mem. Acad. Berolin 1804, p 34; Mart. 

 Palm 166, t. 156 to 163. Oroi^, mountain; doxa, glory. The 

 glory of the mountain. Dicecia Decandria. 



3. O Regia. — Native of Organ Mountain, Brazil ; also of the 

 Barbadoes. A very splendid Pal'm, with polished, straight, often, 

 acuminated, stem with terminal pinnate sheathing fronds unequally 

 bifid at the apex. One tree is in the Society's Garden at Sewiee. 

 We have seen it nowhere else, and it has not borne fruit. 



HYPH.'ENE, Gaert., Dicecia Hexandria. From hyphaino, to 

 entwine, alluding to the fibres on the fruit. 



4. H CoRiACEA, Spr. H crinita thebaica, Delile. — The Doom 

 Palm of the upper Thebaid ; several branches, spreading from the 

 roots with the broad fan-like leaves ; fruit size of an apple or large 

 potatoe, irregular and sublobed in shape. To this we refer B 

 dichotomus in p 226 of the 1st edition of this Catalogue. A tree, 

 in the garden at Sewree ; ripens its seeds, which have exactly the 

 taste of Ginger-bread ; the fruit is commonly sold in the market of 

 Grand Cairo. A plate of the tree may be seen on referring to 

 Lord Valentia's Travels, vol, 4. 



ARECA, Monoecia Hexandria. Soopara, said to be in the 

 Malabar or Malay name latinised. 



5. A Catechu, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3, p 615 ; Rheede Mai. 1, t. 5 

 to 8 ; Rumph. Amb. I, t. 1 to 4; Roxb. Cor. PI. 1, t. 75.— The 

 Betelnut Pailm, extensively cultivated in garden-land near the coast 

 within and more inland in Canara and Soonda. The Sooparee is 

 extensively exported to the interior of India from all the places 

 where it is grown on the coast. 



