Show sugar from sap of palms various tropical palms yield a sugary sap which is employed by ill the natives for making sugar and toddy A summary of information relating specially to the gnipa palm from this point of view Is if given in the bulletin of the imperial institute sti tute tills this palm grows in the muddy estuaries of rivers throughout the eastern tropics the juice which contains about 15 per rent cent of sugar Is obtained by renio vinz the flowering shoots and collecting the sap which escapes if desired the alice can be fermented for the production of alcohol it has been estimated that 28 hundredweight of sugar or gallons of 05 95 per cent alcohol could be obtained annually from an nere acre of swamp land planted with gnipa palms the tree ors occurs lover extensive areas in BrItIs li north borneo and the authorities ties there are uie the question of utilizing it as a source of sugar and alcohol |