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figure TEF denote the fkin or covering, inclofing what I take to be 

 the plant. The remainder of the figure repreients afcending vedeLs 

 and which, as far as I could dilcover, were filled with an oil. Thofe 

 parts which appear like larger velTels, and are indicated b}^ K K K, 

 were fhining and tranfparent, and were.compofed of other vefl'els, fo 

 Imall as to exceed all belief. 



Upon cutting this part marked HEG, not far from the end, next 

 H, I was aftonifhed to find that this was not, wholly, the young plant, 

 but chiefly its cafe or inclofure, the young plant itfelf, which was 

 contained in it, being not much larger than a grain of land. One 

 of the pieces thus cut off I placed before the miciofcope, and deli- 

 vered it to the limner, dire6ting him to make a drawing of the ob- 

 je6l which prefented itfelf to him, as nearly as it was pofiible for his 

 art to imitate it. This flice, which had been cut lengthwife, tiius 

 depi(?ted, is Ihewn at^^^. 15, IKLM. 



I took great pains to examine many Cocoa-nuts before I could be 

 certain that whatinj?_§-. 15, is marked I KM, was really that part of tlie 

 young plant which would penetrate downwards into the earth, and 

 become the root, and that what is defcribcd at KLM was that part 

 which would grow upwards into a tree ; but I am now fatisfied 

 that this is the cafe, and that the parts lafl mentioned are the leaves, 

 which in this young plant are already formed. 



I many times endeavoured to feparate thefe young plants from the 

 integuments inclofing them, but always in vain ; becaufe that part 

 which hifg. 1,5 is denoted by I KM, firmly adhered to thofe inte- 

 guments. All I could do therefore, was, to cut the young plants in 

 pieces by a longitudinal fe6lion ; in doing which, however, it often 

 liappened, that the objedl prefented three or four fhapes to the view, 

 by reafon that I had fometimes cut the plant dire<511y through the 

 middle, and fometimes on one or the other fide. To fet this alfo be- 

 fore the reader, I have given two drawings of the pieces lb cut. 



