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on entozoa, and also in suitable combination as a cardiac remedy."-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. Rath je (Archiv.de Pharmazie, 246,9, 1908, 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. Caryota urens, Linn., h.f.b.l, vi. 422 ; Roxb. 668.
Eng. : — Hill Palm ; Sago Palm.
Vern. : — Mari (H.) ; Rung-bong, simong (Lep.) ; Bara flawar (Ass.) ; Salopa (Uriya) ; (Duk.) ; Bherawa, berli, bhirli mahad, berli mád, bherlá máda, berli mhár, ardhi supári (Mar.) ; Bhirli-mád, birli-mhar (Bomb.) ; Shiwajatá, shankarjatá (Guz.) ; Birli-mád (Konkan) ; Mhár mardi, mari, jirúgú, goragú (Tel.) ; Conda-panna, erim-panna, utalipanna (Tam.) ; Bhyni, beina, bagni (Kan.) ; Shunda pana (Mal.).
Habitat :— Throughout the northern parts of India.
Tall palms, 40-60ft. high by l-l½ft. 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, præmorse or rounded at the tip, petiolules or bases swollen at the insertion. Spathes 3-5, incomplete, tubular, l½ft. long. Spadices 10-1 2ft. long, interfoliar, shortly peduncled, 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 ⅔-¾in. 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,