CORY P I IA UM BRAC U LI FE RA. Linn.
Tali, BENG. Tala or Tala gess, SINGH.
Pa., lluast. Konda pannamaram, TAM.
Fan palm, Talipat, ENO. Sidalam, . . . , TEE. Kodapana, . . MALEAL.
The talipat palm of the Moluccas, Malay coast, Malabar, and Ceylon, is similar in appearance to, but its leaves are not so round as, those of C. taliera, the divisions in the centre being shorter than those at the sides. It has a stern 60 or 70 feet bigh, crowned With enormous fan-shaped leaves, forming a head 40 feet in diameter, each leaf with 40 or 50 pairs of segments. These fronds, when dried, are very strong, and are used for hats and umbrellas. The petiole is 7 feet long, and the blade 6 feet long and 13 feet broad. Ians of enormous size are manufactured from this plant in Ceylon. The bole is wholly pith, which furnishes a sort of flour, of which bread is made ; the leaves make excellent thatch, and are also used for writing on, like those of the C. taliera. Griffith met with trees in
flower at Mergui, which he thought belonged to this species ; and Dr. Mason saw trees in Tavoy, which he regarded as probably talipat palms. The dark-coloured roundish seeds of these trees are used as beads by the Tader or Daaari religious mendicants. C. umbraculifera is found also on the Malabar coast. The dried leaf is very strong and limber, and, aceortling to Knox, is most wonderfully made for men's convenience to carry along with them ; for though this leaf be thus broad enough to cover fifteen or twenty men when it is open, yet it will fold clooe like a lady's fan, and then it is no bigger than a man's arm ; it is wonderfully lighe—Knex's Ceylon, in Royk'a Fib. Pl. ; Seeman ; Eng. C'yc. ; 31ason ; leo.rb. ; Voiat. Kurz joins C. taliem to this.
doRYPIIA UTAN.' Larn.
Taliera sylvetris, Bt. Lontarua sylvestria, A paha of the Moluccas.—Itexb. 1 178.