Talipot
TALIPAT, or TALIPUT, the Corypha umbraculifera, a palm tree, TALLAHASSEE native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast, and cultivated in Bengal and Burma. It has a tall, cylindrical stem, with a soft rind and soft pink internal pith, both formed of vascular bundles. The leaves are in a cluster at the top of the stem, and are fan-shaped. A tree at Peradeniya, in Ceylon, was described in the "Indian Agriculturist" for November, 1873, as having a stem 84 feet high, terminated by a flower panicle of 20 feet, making 104 feet in all, the girth of the stem 3 feet from the ground round the persistent bases of the leaves was 13 feet 4 inches; at 21 feet from the ground 8 feet 3 inches; the leaves were about 10 feet in diameter, and the age of the tree about 40 years. The pith is made into a kind of sago, the leaves are written upon by the natives with a steel stylus; they are, moreover, made into fans, mats, and umbrellas.