THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



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then becomes a most intoxicating drink. It is very widely 

 used, and the tree yields it in profusion. The negroes 



180. The Wine-Tree, or Wine-Bearing Sago-Palm: Sayus oinifera. 



quickly fill their calabashes with it by hanging them to the 

 petioles of the leaves, which for this purpose are cut off 

 soon after their birth. 



