TOYSICAL AND LITERARY. 27.7 



Engelbertus Kaempfer *, Pere Labat f ^ 

 Chrift. Got. Ludwig. J, &c. 



30. These authors are agreed only ia 

 this, that the date-bearing paUn tree has 

 no flowers : And, unlefs the flowering or 

 male palm-tree be fufliciently near, or the 

 dull: of its apices be fome how conveyed 

 into the fpatha of the female, its date 

 ftones will not grow. I fliall pafs the very 

 wide differences among them, as to the 

 manner of conveying it ; and only ob- 

 ferve, that, without the influence of the 

 male, the female will either be barren, or 

 (Caft her unripe fruit, according to the an- 

 tients and Alpinus ; that the dates will 

 want ftones, be harfli, and not eatable, 

 except by camels and cattle ; Hadgi, 

 ** Omnia fua fruduum rudimenta, inde- 

 ** clinabili abortu dimittunt ;" Kaempfer. 

 ** In fruda pulpse loco adeft cortex durior, 

 f ficcus, adftringens, ofliculum vel nul- 

 " lum vel tenue ;" Ludwig: Which areaH. 

 contradided by Labat. 



31. *' It 



* Amasn. exot. p. 706. 



f Voyage aux ifles de L'Amerlqtie, Hague edit, vol, 

 1 part 2. p. 209. 

 t In J. Gefner. diff. p. 86. - 



