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Foot long, which are prickly here and there. The Leaf is fhap’d 
like a Fan being femicircular or more, having Folds like that of a 
Fan,:and fome long Strings, Leaves or Appendices going out of their 
Circumference, which are longer or fhorter according to the Age of the 
Plant. The Fruit is as big as thofe of that Kind of Palm called Cab- 
bage-Tree, and fhap’d like an Olive, or like a Date. 
This grows onall the Honey-comb Rocks of this Ifland, thro” which 
the Fibres of the Roots draw their Nourifhment. ) 
It is ufed for Thatch all over the Wett-Indies. 
It grows at Guam, Dampier, cap. 15. 
Ravenau de Luffan. p. 268. fays that the Leaves of this Tree are ufed by 
the Inhabitants Indians Mouftiques about Cape Gractas 4 dios againft 
the Rain, and that the grey Stuff taken from among the Origins of the 
Leaves fome Feet under the Extremity of the 7'runc which is likewife 
cover’d with it, affords Coverlets for the Night. | 
They calk Ships with Ozkham and make Ropes of the Bark of the 
Palmiti, Alvaro Nannex, lib. 8. cap. 1. p..15§04,1n Florida, 
In Santa Martha, Houfes are covered with Palmito Leaves, Baptifta 
Antonio, Hakl. p. 3. p. 548- ae 
In Diftrefs, in Bermudas the Inhabitants made their Cabins of Palmeta- 
Leaves with Facility, Smith, Summer-Ifles, p-17§- and they eat the Berries 
of them for Food, 7. p. 182. | 
The Difference of the Barks in the two Carnaibas in Pifo, feems to come 
from their Age, as do the Varieties of the Lacénie or Procefles going 
out of the Ends of the Leaves. Likely for the fame Caufe, Tertrve; makes 
two Leaves, onebigger than another. . 
The Name of Palm feems beft to-agree to this Sort fhaped like 
a Hand, when young the tender Tops:are: good, Ov. 
_ They. make Chefts or Boxes of the Barks of the Foot{talks and Leaves 
ofthis: Tree to keep out Water, and fo preferve Salt; they eat the Roots in 
{carce Times, viz. of the younger ones ‘a: Foot under Ground,, where they 
aie tender like.a Bullrufh, Oviedo Sammary p. 209. & Hift: lib..7. cap. 9. 
The Bark of the Footitalks. is ufed to make Panniers, Searces, ce. 
and the Wood is ufed for Bows, Clubs, Darts and Arrow-Headss as is 
that of the Cabbage-Tree, Rochef. 
"In Bermadas and elfewhere they make Hats, Baskets, Brooms and 
Fans to blow the Fire inftead of Bellows, with many other Houfe Im- 
plements, of Palmeto Leaves, Dampier. They. thatch their Houfes in 
Puna, Guam, Mindanao, and Nicobar Ifles, with them, éd. 
XI. Palmis affinis malus Perfica maxima candice non ramofo, foliis longiffi- 
mis, flore tetrapetalo pallide luteo, fructu ex arboris trunco prodeunte. Cat. 
Fam, p.179. Lab. 216. & Tab. 217. Fig. 1,2. Raij. Hist. Vol. 3. 
| The Anchovy Pear-Tree. 
This has an undivided Trunc, no bigger than one’s Leg, cover’d 
with a grey Bark, tapering towards the op, rifing ftraight up to 
twenty Foot high, having near its Top, the Veftigia of feveral Leaves 
which have formerly dropt off; the Leaves come out only round near the 
Top, for half a Foot in Length, they have no Footftalks, are two Foot 
and a balf long, and fix Inches broad in the Middle where. broadeft, 
beginning .very narrow, they grow wider’ in the. Middle and. thence 
decreafe, ending bluntly, much of the Shape of Hartitongue. They have 
one middle Rib:and feveral tranfverfe. ones, fhine, are fmooth aad 
; ¢: thin. 
