The Natural /Elifiory of FAM AA CA. 
IDK ; 
Ts Palma dattylifera major dulearis. fouft.. Dendr. Cate fat. ps v94|Palm- 
Twees-of the Jews-Land of Hubert, Pp. 36... Palmier portant tes Dattes.: Pow- 
met. P. 213 Palma major. Palma daétylifera.Gastell, Hort. Meff p. v8 Dattes.. 
de Maivesp. 84: “Palimsers dé Peywes. p 26).79, e rai. (Palma dattylifera :Ih- 
aca. Muut. Phyp out. ipy age Figs 244. Palma daltylifera Palmeira. Griff, vi 
vids DS 30. Yaycte P alpha gue dact los: oT ameras product Baym. Relation de la, 
ie ph gpi69 Ma bovisset et 3: roatgr! veri pn ) 
+-This ‘ulually 1if@th to a predt'Heighit, and has its. Trunc asnthich as; 
a double: Hog fheadior Wine-pipe, 'befes from-Bottom toiiT op:iroundapaue;; 
withithe remainidg Rafts -of che fallen of oro cut. Fooutalks, fticking_oue: 
for fome Inches ; the Footftalks are prickly, the Leaves: are feveral; about, 
nie’ Beet long, the middie’ Rib; tec. very. thick :with) Pinna at half’ an 
Eoch’s’ Diftance, not juft but near, oppofive:to onésanother; they are 
graily or like Flag Leaves; ofia: pale or: bluith. greea-Colourj. fix, Inches: 
Jong and three quarters of one broad near the fetting on to the mid« 
die Rib, where broadeft. For the Deferiptions of Flowers and’ Fit, 
they may be had in. common. ‘Herbals. «: \ on Awa ye 
There grew fome of thefe at Colonel Bourden’s Plantation beyond: Guas 
im - Egypt. BS <JUbG at one Pa th _ Fer fs play 
~\Salbank faw themin Perfis ap, Parchas. lib, 3.cap..9. §..4. 237, and about 
Balfora. 
them (wanting Corn and Cattle) for their Food, and John Sanderfon,. ap. 
“Purchas: lib .9, cap.16, 9.x, p, 46 25. im Exypry and ib. p. v6u7. co 1631.fays 
about feru/alem there areOrehards ‘of them, where the Inhabitants 
“yearly pare the Out-fide Branches) The! Moors take at their, opening 
‘ the Male Cods ‘or Flowers (Spathe) and: put chem to. the Hemales, one 
“gn Contagion infetts: another ;~the. Trees yield Datesiwhich are pied be 
