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VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS 





Fig. 116, III. — Prickly Sago Palm. Ripe fruit and remains of a staminate 



branch of the flower-cluster. (LeMaout and Decaisne.) — Three yeais 



are required to ripen this strangely armored fruit. 

 Fig. 117, I. — Bitter Cassava (Manihot utilissima. Spurge Family, Euphor- 



biaccw). A shrub 2-3 m. tall, producing swollen roots weighing 10 kg. 



or more; flowers staminate and pistillate on the same plant; fruit dry, 



breaking apart. (Pax.) 



