It also has some 700 hectares of the fan-leaved corypha or talipot palm Corypha umbraculifera, on the leaves of which Buddhist sermons were originally inscribed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A talipot palm was in blossom, towering high to heaven, but we knew that its course was nearly ended, for when it attains about half a century of vitality it droops and dies; this seems ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)
Bennet, in his work on "Ceylon and its Capabilities," (1843), states that sago is procured from the granulated pith of the talipot palm, ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
The talipot leaves are likewise used by the common people to shelter themselves from the rain, _one leaf affording sufficient shelter for seven or eight persons_. ❋ Various (N/A)
In Ceylon, for instance, the leaves of the talipot; in India, the leaves of the palm (with which they commonly covered their houses,) were used for books. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
This fact was emphasized by a long afternoon drive, beginning in the native quarter with its attendant bazars and ending with a long country tour for at least an hour through a forest of palms of many varieties, the tall talipot towering high -- higher even than the fruit-laden cocoanut palm, -- while bread-fruit trees, jack-fruit trees, and bananas made a pleasing variety. ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)
Large as the dimensions of the talipot leaf may appear, it is exceeded in size by the _troolie_ of ❋ Various (N/A)
The library of the temple held many richly bound Buddhist books, written on leaves made from the talipot palm. ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)
At Peradeniya the palm family has nearly a hundred representatives, including the areca, palmyra, talipot, royal, fan, traveler's, date and cocoanut. ❋ Frederic Courtland Penfield (1888)
The line then pushes its way through a bewildering medley of tropical vegetation -- there are miles of cashew and breadfruit trees, of frangipani and jaks, and more than once a stately talipot-palm is discerned in full blossom -- for half a century the tree has stored its vitality for this one effort; and the burst of splendor spent, its career on earth is ended. ❋ Frederic Courtland Penfield (1888)
The long avenues of palms of different varieties -- palmyra, talipot, sago, royal, sealing-wax -- and the specimens of bamboo, India rubber, and rain-tree, are unique and wonderful. ❋ Augustus Hopkins Strong (1878)
Deer-hides were pegged down to form a carpet upon the floors, and the walls were neatly covered with talipot leaves. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
The wide bed of the river was shaded on either side by groves of immense trees, whose branches stretched far over the channel; and not only beneath their shade, but in every direction, tents formed of talipot leaves were pitched, and ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
The most extraordinary in the list of palms is the talipot. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
They take about a dozen leaves of the talipot palm to form a tent, and at night-time, the packs, being taken off the bullocks, are piled like a pillar in the centre, and the talipot leaves are formed in ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
I at first supposed that they appeared in larger numbers on the white ground because they were more easily distinguished; but I tried the experiment of putting a sheet of writing-paper and a piece of brown talipot leaf in the midst of fleas; the paper was covered with them, while only two or three were on the talipot. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
There was a large stock of talipots* (* Large leaves from the talipot tree.) to form tents for the people and coverings for the horses in case of rain; in fact, there never was a trip more happily planned or more comfortably arranged, and there was certainly never such a battery assembled in Ceylon as we now mustered. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
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The 13-year-old aced "bardiglio" (a type of Italian marble), "cerecloth" (a wax-treated cloth) and "talipot" (a tall palm tree native to India and Sri Lanka) during Thursday's semi-final rounds to qualify for the championship round, which aired at 8 p.m. on ABC. ❋ Unknown (2009)
