N. 0. PALME/E. 
1313 
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. Rathje ( Archiv . de Pharmazie , 246, 9, 1008, 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 . Garyota urens, Linn., H.F.B.I., Vi. 422 ; 
Roxb. 668. 
Eng. : — Hill Palm ; Sago Palm. 
Fern. : — Mari (H.) ; Rung-bong, simong (Lep.) ; Bara fla- 
vvar (Ass.) ; Salopa (Uriya) ; (Duk.) ; Bherawa, berli, bbirli 
mahad, berli mdd, blierla mdda, berli mhar, ardhi supari (Mar.); 
Bhirli-mad, birli-mhar (Bomb.) ; Shiwajata, shankarjata (Guz.) ; 
Birli-mdd (Konkan) ; Mhar mardi, mari, jirugu, goragu (Tel.); 
Conda-panna, erim-panna, utalipauna (Tam.) ; Bhyni, beina, 
bagni (Kan.) ; Shunda pana (Mai.). 
Habitat Throughout the northern part3 of India. 
Tall palms, 40-60ft. high by l-l|ft. 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, prieinorse or rounded at the tip, petiolules or bases 
swollen at the insertion. Spathes 3-5, incomplete, tubular, 
l|-ft. 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-fm. 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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