37 3 VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR, 



cardamum, ginger, veronica^ alkekengi ^ purf- 

 lain, fweet bafil, ftar-wort, gentianella, the 

 -winter cherry, the papyrus of the ancients^ 

 called fiinga-Janga^ the nenuphar, &c, 

 With regard to the animals found in Mada- 

 gafcar, Flacourt has left nothing of impor- 

 tance for me to fay on that fubje^l. 



Description of a Tree, ^thich bear^ 

 A SINGULAR Fruit, much celebrat-! 

 KD iM India, and known under the 

 Name of the Cocoa of the Mal- 

 dives* 



THE tree which bears that fruit, known 

 under the name of the Cocoa of ihe Md^ 

 Jhest or iht Jea-cocoa^ rifes to the height of 

 forty or fifty feet. The top of this beauti- 

 ful tree, which may be clalTed among the 

 palms, has the form of a fan ; and is com- 

 pofed often or twelve branches, twenty feet 



long. 



