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PALMS. 



THE PASHMTBA bakr r« rn<v 



pendent clusters of reddish fruit ; 

 its enormous, spreading, fan-like 

 leaves cut into ribbons. Con- 

 trasted with it appears the mani- 

 caria, or the bussu, with stiff 

 entire leaves, some thirty feet 

 in length, almost upright, and 

 very close in their mode of 

 growth, and serrated all along 

 their edges. The leave.- all 

 sprout from a comparatively 

 short stem. 



More curious is the raphia, 

 with plume - like leaves, some- 



|| times from forty to lifty feet in 

 'eno-th, starting also from a short 



$ stem — almost from the ground. 

 Its vase-like form is peculiarly 

 graceful and symmetrical. 



Among the most curious is the 

 nashiuba barrigudo. or bulging- 

 stemmed palm (Triartea ventri- 

 cosa ; which, rising on a pyramid 

 of roots for several feet, runs up 

 in a single column for some dis- 

 tance, and then swells in a curi- 

 ous spindle-form, again to assume 

 the same proportions as below, 

 till its head spreads out in several 

 fan-like branches with web- 

 shaped leaflets. The tree looks 



