. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 324 CASSELL'S POPTJLAK GAEDENING. segments, wMch are not pendent; inteuse deep green. A magaiiiceni: plant. Java. X. Jenkinsiana—the native name of this species in Assam is "Toko Pat;" its leaves are used for making hats, haskets, thatching, and various other purposes. In Sik- kim, where it is rare, it is callea " ; Its fan-shaped leaves are much plaited, some three or four feet in diameter. ^Northern India. L. olivffiformis — a hand- some plant, with less cir- cular leaves than altis- sima, which it otherwise much resemh
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 324 CASSELL'S POPTJLAK GAEDENING. segments, wMch are not pendent; inteuse deep green. A magaiiiceni: plant. Java. X. Jenkinsiana—the native name of this species in Assam is "Toko Pat;" its leaves are used for making hats, haskets, thatching, and various other purposes. In Sik- kim, where it is rare, it is callea " ; Its fan-shaped leaves are much plaited, some three or four feet in diameter. ^Northern India. L. olivffiformis — a hand- some plant, with less cir- cular leaves than altis- sima, which it otherwise much resemhles. Java. oblong nut, covered with a thin rind. After the removal of the outer envelope, or rind, the fruit has the appearance of two. oblong nuts, firmly imited together, and often weighs thirty to forty pounds. They are borne in hunches nine or ten in number, so that a whole bunch wiU often weigh four hun- dred pounds. It takes ten years to ripen its fruit,. LivisTONA (Latania) chinensis. Iiodoicea.—This is one of the most extraordi- jary Palms in the world, or, at least, one of the most wonderful yet discovered. It is a native of some few small islands belonging to the Seychelles group. Smith remarks of this plant, " It is said to attain the height of a hundred feet, its stem being two feet in diameter, bearing at its summit a crown of fan-shaped leaves. It is remarkable for growing in a socket of a hard, woody texture, perforated Ivith lioles made by the roots. The fruit is a large, the albumen of which is similar to that of the com- mon Cocoa-nut, but is too hard and horny to serve as ; Before its habitat was discovered, the nuts were found floating on the sea near the coast of the Maldive Islands, which led to the supposition that they grew in the sea, and they were called " Caco de Mer," or " Sea Cocoa-nuts," and were considered very valuable as presents, even to kings. The flowers are unisexual, each sex produced on sepa- rate p
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