Labillardiere's designation of a genus of palms, known in Sprengel's work by the name of Gomatus, originally proposed for it by Rumphius. It contains only a single species, G. sucharifer. Its juice, when fermented, is palm wine, which is astringent and intoxicating. The trunk of this palm rises to the height of 25 or 30 feet, is covered with the coarse, black fibres, of which the Indians make cables; and from it a large quantity of farinaceous matter is obtained, which is manufactured into a species of sago. The sap as it flows from the plant is a pale, yellowish, transparent liquid, which is generally collected in gourds, or joints of the large bamboo tied to the cut midribs of the leaves. The plant is a native of Cochin-China and the Indian Isles.