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ttiickeft. In the infide of thefe is a large ftone half an inch 

 long, of the fhape of a bean or cuOioo-nut, of a dark, 

 brown colour, and this contains a fmall feed> which is lei- 

 dom hardened into fruit, but confifts only of fkin. 



The long (talk that bears the figs of the Enfete fprings 

 from the center of the plant, or rather is the body or folid 

 part of the plant itfelf. Upon this, where it begins to bend, 

 are a parcel of loofe leaves, then grows the fig upon the bo- 

 dy of the plant without any (talk, after which the top of the 

 ilalk is thick-fet with fmali leaves, in the midft of which it 

 terminates the flower in form of the artichoke ; whereas in 

 the banana, the flower, in form of the artichoke, grows at 

 the end of that fhoot, or ftalk, which proceeds from the 

 middle of the plant, the upper part of which bears the row 

 of figs. 



The leaves of the Enfete are a web of longitudinal fi- 

 bres clofely fet together ; the leaves grow from the bottom, 

 and are without ftalks ; whereas the banana is in fhape like 

 a tree, and has been miftaken for fuch. One half of it is 

 divided into a ftem, the other is a head formed of leaves, 

 and, in place of the ftem that grows out of the Enfete, a 

 number of leaves rolled together round like a truncheon, 

 flioots out of the heart of the banana, and renews the upper 

 as the under leaves fall off; but all che leaves of the bana- 

 na have a long llalk; this fixes them to the trunk, which 

 they do not embrace by a broad bafe, or involucrum, as 

 the Enfete does, 



But the greateft differences are ftiil remaining. The 



banana, has, by fome, been miftaken for a tree of the 



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