BREAD-FRUIT AND COCOA-PALM. 243 
sends out its leaves in a group, the tree is sometimes 
inclosed in a pyramidal column from top to bottom, 
most beautiful to see. 
The groo-groo is most abundant on the coast and 
plentifully besprinkles the woods of the hillsides; it 
can be seen anywhere in long ranks on the ridges, 
and in clumps and groups by the roadside. It is not 
as tall as either the cocoa or the palmiste, is stouter 
than the mountain palm, and with a denser head 
than either of them. .Its leaves are curled laterally 
from the mid-rib, and droop feathery and plume-like. 
It covers all the hills and upper valleys along the sea- 
coast, and seems to take the place the tree-fern oc- 
cupies in similar localities in other islands. 
All the palms are beautiful: the mighty palmiste, 
towering to a height of one hundred and fifty feet, 
with its column-like trunk and spreading head of long 
leaves, is unsurpassed in grandeur. The cocoa palm, 
perhaps, is the most picturesque, as its stem-is so 
slender, and its loose leaves droop so gracefully, wav- 
ing with every breeze, ever and anon disclosing its 
wealth of fruit. Nothing can be more picturesque 
than a cocoa bending above a thatched hut; than a 
group of cocoas on the bank of a stream reflecting 
back their beauty. If utility were considered, then 
certainly the cocoa would bear away the palm, as it 
assuredly is the palm of this tropic zone. The moun- 
tain palm, found only in the high woods and on 
elevated ridges, has a slenderer stem, and its long 
leaves give it a resemblance to the cocoa. The 
areca palm, the seeds of which are used with the 
famous betel nut, with small straight stem and a 
single tuft of plumes, is a very ornamental tree. No 
