Note 124 — V. HERE FOLLOWETH CONCERNING INDIA THE GREATER.
Reading edition
The Talipat (Corypha umbraculifera), or great fan-palm, abundant in Ceylon, and found in the southern part of the peninsula, in Burma, and in the Malay islands, but scarcely known in Bengal. The leaves, according to Sir J. E. Tennent, have sometimes an area of two hundred square feet.