. The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) . ) History.—Sago is not mentioned by the ancient Greeks and Romans. [Hist, dell lnd. Orient. Ven. 1578), is the fir3t author in whose works I Fig. 135. have found any notice of it. By the earlierwriters it was variously called zagu, sagu, andSaga. (C. Bauhin, Pinax.) In Java the wordSaga signifies Botany. Gen. char.— Sj)athes many. (Spa-ces; (terminal) super-decompound. Male: Ca-lyx three-toothed. Corolla three-parted. Sta-mina inserted on the base of the : Calyx and Corolla as in the ab
. The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) . ) History.—Sago is not mentioned by the ancient Greeks and Romans. [Hist, dell lnd. Orient. Ven. 1578), is the fir3t author in whose works I Fig. 135. have found any notice of it. By the earlierwriters it was variously called zagu, sagu, andSaga. (C. Bauhin, Pinax.) In Java the wordSaga signifies Botany. Gen. char.— Sj)athes many. (Spa-ces; (terminal) super-decompound. Male: Ca-lyx three-toothed. Corolla three-parted. Sta-mina inserted on the base of the : Calyx and Corolla as in the abortive. Style three-parted. Berrybackwardly imbricated with cartilaginousscales. Seed solitary. Embryo lateral. (Rox-burgh.) Sp. ci»ar.—Arboreous, armed with strongstraight spines. Leaves pinnate. (Roxburgh) The stature of this tree seldom exceedsthirty feet. Before maturity, and previous tothe formation of (he fruit, the stem consistsof a thin hard wall, about two inches thick,and of an enormous volume of tissue (commonly termed the medulla or pith),. Sagus Rumphii. a. The tree. c. Fruit-bearing spadix. b. The shrub. d. Ripe fruit. 1 Sir F. Drake, Itakluyts Princip. Navigations, Voyages, ^-c. vol. iii. p. 742. 88 ELEMENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA. from which the farina, called sago, is obtained. As the fruit forms, the fari-naceous medulla disappears, and when the tree attains full maturity, the stem isno more than a hollow shell. The utmost age of the tree does not exceed thirtyyears. Hab.—Peninsula of Malacca and the Malay Islands. It is an inhabitant of lowmarshy situations. 2. SAGUS LyEVIS, Kumph.—THE UNARMED SAGO-PALM. S. laevis, Jack, in Camp. Bot. Mag. i. 266; S. inermis, Roxb.(Sago ; FtEcula caudicis, Offic.) Botany. Gen. char.—Vide supra. Sp. char.—Arboreous, unarmed. Embryo lodged in or near the apex of the seed. Leaves pinnate. [Roxburgh.) Hab,—Sumatra, Borneo, and the islands between them. Grows spontaneouslyin low swampy lands. 3. SAGUERUS RUMPHII, Roxb.
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