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272 



MONADKLPIITA POLYANDRTA. 



ADANSONTA. 



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Columniferae. Zm.— MalvaceiB. Jnss.—^omhixcoin. De Cand. 



u 



digiiatu. A. digitata. Willd. Sp. PL 



3. 



P 



730 



Ilort. Kew. 4. p. 195. De Cand. Prod 

 1. p. 478. Cm. Diss. 298. t. 157. 



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A. Baobab. Gaert. Fr. 2. /). 253. t. 135. 

 Baobab sive Abavi. Bauh. Hist. I. p. 110. 

 Abavo arbor. Bauh. Pin. 434. 

 Corn Tree. 



Hughes. 218 ? * 



Ethiopian Sour Gourd, or Monkies 



Bread. Miller. 



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* There is certainly no tree in Barbados that bears for its 

 fruit a '^ long- cylindrical ear, not ill resembling a larg-e mould- 

 candle, round which stalk the g-rains (of corn) are disposed/' 

 as stated by Hughes. From his general description, however, of 

 the corn tree, and from his account of the period of its introduc- 

 tion into the island, 1 have little doubt of his meaning what is 

 now generally termed the Baobab, or Monkies' Bread-fruit Tree. 





