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an analogous substance, is produced from the stem of se- 
veral other palms. 
Sagus genuina, p. 75, t. 17 & 18. 
Dr Roxburgh (Hort. Beng. 68) called this Sagus ine?'- 
mis ; but it is certainly the Sagus Rumphii of Willdenow 
(Sp. PL iv. 404). As it is from this that by far the greater 
part of sago, and that of the best quality, is prepared, I 
think that the name of Rumphius is by far the most appro- 
priate. The author of the Supplement to the Encyclopedie 
(v. 13) doubts, whether this Sagus genuina be a different 
species from the Sagus fariiiifera of that work (vi. 394) ; 
but this doubt seems unnecessary, as the sago of the Sagus 
Jurinifera is the worst of all others. It is to the Sagus 
genuina, probably, that we should refer the Arbor Zagoe 
Amboinensis of Seba, which Burman (Hor. Ind. 240), and 
Willdenow (Sp. PI. iv. 844), have referred to the Cycas 
circinalis ; for I may venture to affirm, that sago never 
was procured from the stem of the Todda pana of the 
Hortus Malabaricus (iii. 9)? although the nuts of this tree, 
when bruised, give a flour, that is used in Malabar as an 
aliment. This error, clearly pointed out by Rumphius (p. 
92), seems to have arisen from Rheede"'s having mistaken 
his Toddo pana, one of the most common trees in Malabar, 
for the Soteetsou of Japan. It must farther be observed, 
that Rumphius, far from describing various kinds of the 
Olus calappoides, that produce sago, as the younger Bur- 
man asserts, describes the sago to be the produce of a total- 
ly different plant, as here mentioned ; and it is to be la- 
mented that the younger Burman did not attend to the ex- 
cellent observation of his father on this subject, contained 
in this volume of Rumphius, p, 78. 
