VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS 



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Fig. 36. — Coconut. A, flower-cluster with one of the immense bracts 

 which envelop it while young, showing staminate flowers in upper 

 part of branches, and pistillate ones near the base, much reduced. 

 B, staminate flower. C, pistillate flower. B and C slightly reduced. 

 (Original drawing from photograph.) — The flowers and enclosing bracts 

 are various shades of yellow. 



