_ the shell has decayed, but after the pericarp has fallen away. 
» elapses before the nt 
Po 
Sah: 
# 
ce 
have been known to hang three years on the tree before 
falling on the ground. The outer envelope rots away in a 
few days. It is from the sinus of the lobes, where there 
are many, coarse, rigid fibres (¢. 2738, f. 3.), that the 
Embryoor Germ is protruded ; and this takes place before 
It extends itself to a considerable distance from its par 
seed before it is separated, remaining attached to it by 
what appears a portion of the root or radicle; whilst the — 
outer extremity penetrates into t 1, and from a clet 
in the thickest part, near the middle, throws up the plum ie; 
as appears at the letter a of the same plate and figure. 
‘he tree has generally 
it at the same 
or thirty years before it. | 
from. twenty to thirty ri 
time. 
s fruit. 
difficulty of 
for examina- 
was the more to be regretted, since, known plants, 
hardly any tribe has offered to m: D 
valuable properties as the Palms; or 
ch elegance and m: 
been stamped by 
y of form ; whence 
arrangement, but gr 
his system, ca 
a aloe: which has been 
remain a monument of 
