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on entozoa, and also in suitable combination as a cardiac re- 

 medy."-Ph. J, Feb. 23, 1889, pp. 667-668. 



Areca nuts contain about 14 per cent, of fat. An elaborate analysis of 

 the fat has been made by A. Rath je (Avchiv.de Pharmazie, 246,9, 1908, 703), 

 in which it appears to resemble cocoanut oil, but the extensive use of the nuts 

 in the East as a masticatory precludes this oil from reaching any commercial 

 importance. (Agri. Ledger, 1911-12, No. 7, p. 168). 



1298. Caryota urens, Linn., h.f.b.l, vi. 422 ; 

 Roxb. 668. 



Eng. : — Hill Palm ; Sago Palm. 



Vern. : — Mari (H.) ; Rung-bong, simong (Lep.) ; Bara fla- 

 war (Ass.) ; Salopa (Uriya) ; (Duk.) ; Bherawa, berli, bhirli 

 mahad, berli mad, bherla mada, berli mhar, ardhi supari (Mar.) ; 

 Bhirli-rnad, birli-mhar (Bomb.) ; Shiwajata, shankarjata (Guz.) ; 

 Birli-mad (Konkan) ; Mhar mardi, mari, jinigu, goragu (Tel.) ; 

 Conda-panna, erim-panna, utalipanna (Tarn.) ; Bhyni, beina, 

 bagni (Kan.) ; Shunda pana (Mai.). 



Habitat :— Throughout the northern parts of India. 



Tall palms, 40-60ft. high by l-ljft. in dim., soboliferous or 

 not, flowering from the upper leaf-sheaths, and successively from 

 lower (alternately male and female) ; trunk naked or sheathed. 

 Leaves few, very large, 18-20 by 10-15ft. broad, bipinnatisect ; 

 leaflets 4-8in. long, very obliquely dimidiately flabelliform, or 

 cuneiform, prasmorse or rounded at the tip, petiolules or bases 

 swollen at the insertion. Spathes 3-5, incomplete, tubular, 

 lift. long. Spadices 10-1 2ft. long, interfoliar, shortly peduncl- 

 ed, much fastigiately branched ; branches slender, pendulous ; 

 flowers solitary and male, or 3-nate with the intermediate female. 

 Male flowers symmetric ; sepals rounded, imbricate ; petals 

 linear-oblong, valvate ; stamens about 40 ; filaments very short, 

 white ; anthers acuminate, long. Fem. fl. subglobose, sepals 3, 

 rounded, imbricate, rather broader than in the male ; petals 

 f-fin. in diam., rounded, valvate ; ovary 3-celled, stigma 3-lobed, 

 ovules erect. Fruit 1 or 2 globose, 1-2-seeded, stigma terminal. 

 Seeds erect ; albumen ruminate ; embryo dorsal. 



Uses : — " An excellent spirit is obtained by the fermentation 

 and distillation of the toddy obtained from this elegant palm, 

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