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Vegetation of the Telanca Plateau and central lowlands is a more open secondary forest, dominated by palms, such as Arenga pinnata, Caryota mitis and Arenga obtusifolia, which may occur in almost pure stands interspersed with taller canopy trees, such as Lagerstroemia flosreginae, Diospyros macrophylla, Vitex pubescens, Ficus sp., and Planchonia valida.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia 2009
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Also characteristic are a variety of palms including Arenga saccharifera, Caryota, and Calamus spp.
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Palms are common in the lowland forest, including Oncosperma horridum, Liculala celebensis, Pinanga, Areca, Caryota, and Livistona rotundifolia.
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In the jungle at Yen occurs a huge Palm evidently Caryota, foliis maximis supra decompositis; the diameter of the trunk is 1.5 to 2 feet.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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In the evening the Yen Gam came up according to his promise with the gigantic Palm, with male inflorescence, it is a Caryota; he likewise brought Sarcocordalis, Rafflesiacea, and a curious pubescent Piper.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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[9] _Bá-hi'_ (_Caryota_ sp.) [10] Called _bá-tung_.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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Sago as well as sugar, and a kind of palm wine, are procured from _Caryota urens_.
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The Mishmees use the fibres and _reti_ of Caryota as an ornament to their baskets, from which it likewise keeps the rain.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The pith or farinaceous part of the trunk of the _Caryota urens_, is almost equal to the finest sago.
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He also added the female flowers of another Palm, which, according to him, is another species of _Sawar_, or Caryota: the inflorescence is of an orange yellow.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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