The palm tree . Cargota Wixtnn;. OR, THE GREAT WINE PALM OF THE EAST, OR SUGAR PALMOF CEYLON. [fHIS palm, indigenous to all the islands ofthe Indian Archipelago, excepting Java,is known in each of them by a differentname. By the Malays it is calledNehiing; by the people of Macassar,Bamisa; by those of Amboyna, Evimpannah, Bonkhejur, and other appellations,it is greatly prized in various parts of India, Malabar,Bengal, and Assam. In Ceylon, as the Kitool orKittul tree, it is especially valued. It delights in mountainous countries. Whereverit is found, this slender stemmed palm, sixty f
The palm tree . Cargota Wixtnn;. OR, THE GREAT WINE PALM OF THE EAST, OR SUGAR PALMOF CEYLON. [fHIS palm, indigenous to all the islands ofthe Indian Archipelago, excepting Java,is known in each of them by a differentname. By the Malays it is calledNehiing; by the people of Macassar,Bamisa; by those of Amboyna, Evimpannah, Bonkhejur, and other appellations,it is greatly prized in various parts of India, Malabar,Bengal, and Assam. In Ceylon, as the Kitool orKittul tree, it is especially valued. It delights in mountainous countries. Whereverit is found, this slender stemmed palm, sixty feethigh, perfectly straight, surmounted by its magni-ficent crown of leaves (each measuring from eighteento tw^enty feet in length, and from ten to twelve inbreadth), wdth clusters of lai-ge dark red beriieshanging below, forms a beautiful object. The form of the leaf of Caryota, says Humboldt, is as singular among palms as that of the Gingko CARYOTA UREXS. 135 tree amongst Conifer?e. This peculiarity consists inthe leaflets, or
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