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small seeds. Also the madrofia, which rcseiiiljles the loinon in 

 shape and colour, and lilled with a pulp enveloping several large 

 nuts, the llavour not unlike strawberries. The tree which 

 produces these fruits attains a height of sixty feet, and has a 

 dense foliage of a brilliant green. 



On a vine grows the monkey cacao bean, which these ani- 

 mals eagerly devour. 



There are many leguminous trees, some beaiing pods ten 

 inches long, filled with rows of l)lack beans enveloped in a 

 snow-white and agreeably sweet pulp. Here also is the alga- 

 robo, or locust-tree of the New World ; bearing pods filled 

 with beans surrounded l)y a sweet farinaceous substance, of a 

 highly nutritious quality. 



Indeed, Venezuela is behind no other region of the world 

 in the variety and quality of its natural productions. 



