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to find this tree during his stay at Endeavour 

 River, when he surveyed the Australian coasts, 

 but his researches were unsuccessful. In another 

 part of the same volume,* it is stated of the 

 Bananas, at Batavia — " There is one which 

 deserves the particular notice of the botanist, 

 because, contrary to the nature of its tribe, 

 it is full of seeds, and is therefore called Pisang 

 hatu, or Pisang bidgie ; it has, however, no 

 excellence to recommend it to the taste, but 

 the Malays use it as a remedy for the flux." 



Where grass or hay cannot be procured, 

 voyagers will find the succulent stem and leaves 

 of this plant, as well as the leaves of the Dracoena 

 terminalis, an excellent substitute, for feeding 

 goats and other animals. 



* Vol. i. page 309, 8vo. edition. 



