THE BORAGO OFFICINAL IS

LANES SAN.) (AFTER DE [B, 19; L, 87.]—B. THE BORASSUS FLABELLIFORM IS. [A, 827.] flabelliform is [Linnæus]. Fr.. rondier en éventail, cocotier de mer. Ger., gemeine Fticherpalme. Syn.: Lontarus domestic a [Rumphius]. “The Palmyra palm of India, the Deleb-palm of Africa, à lofty tree of tropical Africa and the Kast Indies. Ithas beer O. no; 0%, not; 0%, whole; Th, thin; Th?, the; U, like oo in too; U?, blue; U?, lull; U4, full; US, urn; US, like ti (German). supposed to furnish bdellium; the fresh juice of the young flowers pike is employed by the natives as a cooling and resolvent drink, and has been used in phthisis; fermented, the juice constitutes im wine (teddy), from which arrack is distilled; treated like the Juice of sugar-cane, it yields palm sugar (jaggery); the fruit is eaten; a variety of sago is sometimes made from the pith of the stem; and various pears of the tree are put to a multitude of uses.