326 FOREST TREES. 



in the end if the trees were allowed greater space, 

 or say 6— 7 feet between the pits. A full grown 

 tree is calculated to produce 250 to 800 nuts annu- 

 ally. The Mysore product is highly valued at 

 Bombay, where it realises Rs. 80 — 100 per candy of 

 5|- cwt. 



592 Areca alba, Rum ph. A rubra, Bobt., and a few 

 other exotic species are cultivated in the Botanical 

 Gardens. 



593 Arenga saccharifera, Labill. 



The sago palm of Malacca, and the Malaya also 

 known as the siigar palm. Cultivated in the 

 Botanical Gardens, where it only succeeds under 

 the shade of other trees. 



594 Caryota urens, Linn. Kan. Bagani, Byree. 

 'Fig.—Bot PI. Lal-Bagh Collection. 



'References -Did. of Econ. Prod, of Ind. ; Ft. 

 uf Brit. Lid. 



The bastard sago or hill toddy-palm, j^bundant 

 in the warmer parts of the Malnad, but seldom 

 found in the maidan, except in gardens. A hand- 

 some species attaining in good situations to nearly 

 50 feet. Trunk solitary, stout, annulate, clothed 

 by a few bipinnate leaves of enormous size and 

 great beaixty. The immense spadix bearing a huge 

 cluster of long drooping branchlets of flowers or 

 fruit, as the case may be, is a marked feature of the 

 species. While the flowers are still in bud, these 

 pendulous clusters are conspicuous objects for 

 several weeks, and are greatly prized for decoration 

 on the occasion of native weddings. A very strong 

 but somewhat coarse fibre is afforded by the large 

 sheathing petiole of the leaf, while the cord-like 

 fibro-vascular bundles at the base of the leaf sheath 

 furnishes the material known as Kittul fibre, which 

 in Ceylon and elsewhere, enters largely into the 



