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large pinnate leaves like drooping plumes. Below them 
hung the petioles of dead leaves and great clusters of 
fruit, from which oil is made. The fruits resemb‘e larg 
acorns in form and contain hard, wrinkled kernels which 
in Mexico are called “coquitos de aceite.’’ Those of an 
allied species are burned in Brazil for smoking rubber. 
Another oil-yielding palm, called “corozo colorado”’ 
on the Isthmus, is Elaeis melanococca, a species growing 
in marshy places, with low creeping trunk and enormous 
pinnate leaves; the fruits are smaller than those of the 
preceding species, of a br'ght red on the outside and with 
asmall hard nut. Both the husk and the nut yield oils, 
but of different kinds. ‘The fruits are crowded in com-— 
_ paet clusters from which the hard po'nted tips of the — 
floral branches project. - 
_ Acrocomia — called “ chunga’”’ on the ithunan eo 
is the macaw palm ss eeadesagae of the West Indies. Itis — 
closely allied to A vinifera, which in Central — 
_ America is called “eoyol,” a and yields a sugary sap from ~ 
_ which wine, or toddy, is fermented. ‘The fronds of this — 
species are pinnate but the pinne do not all lie in the a 
same pla ‘The spathe i is armed with spines, the fruit 
