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TABLE TAB.E Case. 



The top of the Table Case in the centre of the room is 

 devoted to further illustrations of the products of the Cocoa- 

 nut Palm. On the side next the windows, and commencing at 

 the end nearest Case 66, note a bird cage from Singapore, 

 made of the split petioles of the Palm ; also a toy ship, made of a 

 portion of the husk of a Cocoa-nut, Avith sail consisting of the 

 leaf of a Ficus, used by children in Seychelles to float Id. 

 shallow water. Cocoa-nut scraper and rasp from Straits Settle- 

 ments ; water vessels and spoons of Cocoa-nut shells ; hshing lines 

 from Samoa of Cocoa-nut fibre ; series showing the manner of 

 collecting and preparing Cocoa-nut fibre or Coir. The husk 

 or fibrous portions of the fruits are shown from Belize, Trini- 

 dad, and Ceylon ; also portions of husk showing fibre partially 

 combed ; fibre prepared for mat making and sorted into lengths 

 ready for brush making. Note samples of prepared fibre from 

 Cochin, Ceylon, and Fiji, the first being of a very light colour, 

 the second medium, and the third dark brown. A mat made 

 by Messrs. Treloar & Sons from these undyed fibres is also 

 shown. 



On the opposite side of the Table Case, in front of the door, 

 is a series of Cocoa-nuts in the husks and with the husks 

 removed, from different countries and of various sizes and forms. 

 Observe the small King Cocoa-nuts, from Ceylon ; also Copra, 

 the dried sliced kernel from which the oil is expressed. Abnormal 

 Cocoa-nut, the peculiar growth of which is due to a hyper- 

 trophied condition of the segments of the perianth, which have 

 increased in length and developed the fibrous structure of the 

 pericarp ; Cocoa-nut Cake, the residue of the kernel after 

 expressing the oil, used for feeding cattle ; Cocoa-nut oil soap 

 from Madras ; Cocoa-nut shells, many of them highly carved 

 and polished and made into useful and ornamental aiticles, 

 as tea pots, tea cups, tobacco jars, winecups, ladles, &c. 



CASE No. 140. Male and female spadices and spathes of the 

 Qtj KoKERiTE Palm, Mau;imiliana martiaiiay Karst. (M. regia, 

 Mart.)y from Demerara. This magnificent palm forms a 

 lofty smooth trunk, covered with large, terminal, pinnate 

 leaves, sometimes 50 feet long ; the petioles are persistent for 

 some distance down the trunk. The palm produces numerous 

 spadices i^rom amongst the bases of the lower leaves. The 

 spathes which enclose the spadices grow to a vei-y large size, 

 as may be seen from the specimens exhibited. This palm is 



