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fide being full of alternate protubera- 

 ting knobs, inclofed in fmall ftringy 

 filaments : From thefe are produced a 

 great number of fmall oval nuts, in 

 lize refembling unhulked coffee-berries. 

 Thefe nuts contain each the rudiments 

 of a future tree. At the very fummit 

 of the trunk is found the cabbage, in- 

 clofed in a green huiky tegument, 

 which being exfoliated, the cabbage 

 appears in long, thin, white, tender 

 flakes, or ftrata^ refembling the kernel 

 of an almond in tafte. The trunk of 

 the tree is of a ftrong ligneous fab- 

 {lance, but, like all of the Palm Jpe- 

 cies, to which it belongs, has an inter- 

 nal longitudinal cavity, containing a 

 pithy fubftance. 



The Eta Tree is of the fame fpecies 

 with the foregoing, but fmaller. If 

 produces cabbage like that; but its 



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