Medical and economical botany : [Forming the third part of the 'The elements of botany'.].

  • John Lindley
Date:
1849
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Credit: Medical and economical botany : [Forming the third part of the 'The elements of botany'.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Unarmed ; stem tall ; leaflets broadly linear, plaited, acuminate, the upper confluent, wedge-shaped, prsemorse ; fruit ovate. Habitat. All over the East Indies. Qualitv. Fruit astringent; narcotic. _ . ^ i. Uses. Nuts chewed, with lune and the leaves of Chavica (Piper) Betel; yield Catechu by boiling. Saguerus. Rumphius. Leaves pinnate. Sepals of the females imbricated, convolute. Staniens 00. Fruit a globose drupe, with 2 or 3 angular stones. ]. S. sacchartfer'Blume. ^reji^a sacc/iari/em Labill.—(The Gomdto Palm.) Fig. 71. Petioles not spiny; pinnsB linear-lanceolate, acummate, entire or emarginate, auriculate, white or silvery beneath ; branches of the spadix long, clustered, pendulous ; fruit yellowish. ITabitat. The tropical parts of Asia. Omlitv. Yields a saccharine fluid abundantly ; also Sago. Uses. Is a great soui-ce of Palm wine. The central bud or cabbage eatable.