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prickles or warts, bears the denomination of taftara. Of the banana 

 (miifaparadifiaca) they enumerate at leaft 13 different forts, diftin. 

 o-uifhed by different names, befides the large horfe-plantanes : they 



cultivate at leafl two forts of arwriy viz. the common eddoes, with 



a 



blueidi velvet leaf,,, (arum efculentum) called 



d. the larg 



kind, with green gloify leaves, which they name ape, (arum ma 



w 



crorhizufnj Befides thefe varieties of plants, they have alfo a kind 

 of excellent apples, called evee, nearly related, to the Brafilian plumb 

 (fpondias.) A large tree bears a kind of fruit involved in a flringy 



ihell 



tafle 



greatly diffe 



from the chefnut, which they 



ame ratta^ and v/e gave it the name of inocarpus edulis. Anew 



t> 



ther large tree likewife ^.^.....^ 



srowins: in the Eafl Indies, and known by 



the botanical nam^e o^ eugeiiia malaccenfu, is not uncommon in thefe 

 ifles; its juicy refrediing fruit is eaten in great quantities, and bears 



r 



the name of e-haya : there is another large plant, which thefe iiles 



ve m common wi 



ith the Eafl-Indies, known in- the Molucca 



i 



ha 



iflands by the name of pandang, in Taheitee, by that of e-whdra, 



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and to which we, gave the botanical name of athrodaBylis fpinofa^ 



Forjters CharaBeres Gen, Flant. p, 149, tab\ JS.) It« 

 fruit grows in large elufrers, and when ripe, it has an agreeable fmell, 

 but the tafle was to me very difagreeable and aflringentj the natives 

 find it more palatable : the fame plant yields to them its large leaves, 



which dried, are employed for covering, with a good thatch, the 



roofs 



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