178 APPENDIX. 
N? of 
N® Genera. Growth, species. Native of 
3 Corypha* * * § (monoclin.) s 2 India,, Barbftdoes 
4 Rhaphis s 2 China 
5 Thrinax s 1 Jamaica 
Species in 
Britain, 
2d. Feather-leaved, (Two houses.) 
Drupa. 
6 Elaeis s 1 Griiinea 
7 Phoepixf t 2 India, Arabia. &c. 
8 ArecaJ 
9 Cocos§ 
10 Cyeasl! 
11 Elate 
Feather-leaved , (one house.) 
Drupa. 
t 2 India 
t 3 Guinea, India 
t 2 India 
t 1 India 
* The umbrella palm tree (corypha umbraculiferaj it is said will grow about 
thirty-five years before it flowers, but as soon as that is over, it dies. The Plan¬ 
tain tree will sometimes be one hundred years before it flowers, but afterwards if 
soon perisheth. The lavatera arborea will stand several winters, and grow to the 
size of a common pear tree, but when it hath once flowered, no art can prevent its 
perishing at the approach of winter.—See note to agave. 
f Phoenix dactylifera (date or (lactyl tree) is a very durable tree j but if it hap. 
peris to be injured by some instrument so as to cause a decay, it is cut down at the 
root, and is then burnt on the spot; and its ashes are covered with a layer of earth, 
from the middle of which a new shoot soon arises, and becomes strong in a few 
years s as the Greek word for this palm is phoenix , it is probable that the fabulous 
history of the Arabian bird of that name reviving from its ashes, is founded on this 
circumstance .—Caravels by the Abbe Mariti —printed in English, 1791 ). Which 
seems to have been an hierogliphic emblem, of the destruction and resuscitation of 
all things. It is an observation that where date trees grow, water is always found 
near. The fruit is an egg-shaped berry, inclosing a hard seed* 
J The areca nut fareca catechu) is much used in the East for chewing along with 
the leaf of the betel. —(See betel.J In Bengal it is called sooparee. 
§ From the cocoa-nut tree (cocos nucifera), besides the great use made of the 
husk, the shell, the kernel, and the milky substance in the centre, is made the wine ' 
called palm wine; and an agreeable liquor is also extracted from the blossoms 
called toddy', which, after being fermented and distilled, is called rack, or arrack ; 
which is said to be preferable to the rack made of rice or sugar. 
I! Cycas circinalis ,—see note to sago in Table of Vegetable Drugs. - 1 
