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Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



The trunk rises like a column to the height of eighty feet 

 before it branches. The leaves are opposite and trifolio- 

 late, the leaflets six inches long ; the immense flowers are 

 of a deep purplish-brown colour. The vast altitude may 

 perhaps account for the infrequency of the appearance of 

 the souari in the shops, to clamber up for them being a 

 task even the natives do not care to undertake. The 

 souari is also called the Demerara-nut, and sometimes 

 the Butter-nut. 



