APPENDIX. 179 
N° of Species iii 
N° Geneta. Growth, species. Native of Britain. 
1£ Nipa t 1 Amboyna 
13 Zamia t 5 Kafferland in Africa 
3d. Twice feather-leaved, (one house.) 
Drupa. 
14 Caryota s i India # 
15 Licuaia* * (monodin.) t 1 Amboyna, Ceylon 
From the Supplement. 
16 Mauritia s 1 Surinam 
17 Ginkgo t l Japan 
18 Arengaf t 1 Moluccas 
* Licuala spinosa (the tallipot tree).—See note to horabsus* 
C. Labillardiere read a memoir (in the national institute of France, in 1801} 
on anew species of palm called arenga , from the word arenga a name given to it 
in the Moluccas. He calls it the arenga saccharifera . It rises about 60 feet (Eng¬ 
lish) ; the alated leaves are 16 to 20 feet long, the leaflets are dentaled at their 
extremity, and have one or two appendices at their base* The leaf-stalks are large 
at their base, and furnished with long black threads, with which the Malays make 
* very durable ropes and cables. The leaf-stalks serve to construct their habitations* 
and the leaves to cover the roof. A saccharine liquor is obtained from this palm, 
by making incisions; and by proper management the tree will produce this liquor 
more than half the year. By simple evaporation it gives a kind of sugar, of the 
colour and consistence of chocolate newly made, but which is capable of further 
refining. The nuts of the young fruits make good confectionary, and the pith of 
the trunk yields excellent sago. 
