232 TlMEHRI, 
Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo. On the Pomeroon 
and the rivers between that and the Orinoco it does not 
seem to occur. According to SCHOMBURGK it (or rather, 
according to him, the true CE. Bacaba, Mart) occurs 
thoughout the interior even in the sandstone and 
savannah tracts. 
The leaves are used as thatch where other, better 
material is not to be had, and the fruit, like that of the 
next species to which it is preferred, for making with 
flour a fermented drink. I know of no other use to which 
any part of the tree is put. 
CE. Batawa, Mart : 
Local Names. 
True Carib Patawa. * 
Arawak Tooroo. 
Warrau Mohee 
I am indebted to Mr. Jenman for the following excellent 
description of this palm. — "Trunk 40 ft. high, unarmed, 
8 in, in diameter, cylindrical throughout, scars distant 
below, approaching above ; petiole shortly clasping, the 
edges furnished with matted coir; leaf about 15 ft. long, 
uninterruptedly pinnate ; leaflets 4 ft. long, 4 inch, wide 
plaited, acuminate at the apex, once folded at the base, 
very glaucous beneath ; spathe 5 ft. long, sharply 
acuminate, outer spathe 3 as long; spadix as in Euterpe 
and Oreodoxa ; fruit — ?; seed about the size of a nutmeg, 
thickly covered with loose fibre ; fl. in October." 
To this 1 may add that the ripe fruit is of a very dark 
plum colour. 
* It is a lather curious faft that, according to Wallace, the name of 
this palm in that strange composite tongue the lingoa geral is our Carib 
word patawa. 
