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AJtEKA PALM. 



parties, was efibcted by the supercargo of the 



The principal articlu of expoi'tjition Iroiu this 

 CG^&t is a»d It raall ciuantity of lice; 



lity, and 0«ie*^d-e-Mf dolhir a pecul M-a? dc- 

 Tiiaiitled as> the loM-est prici^ ; the vt'sscl would hn 

 rcc|uircd to furnish bags ibr the rice, as there are 



iBaiiti&aMx^ mk ^Eiasl^ mi a- deity 



Areka-nut must, therefore, be regarded as tW 

 principal article nf tradt^, as it is to he pur- 

 chased clieap, and of a tpality as excellent as 

 in any part of the Bastm Man:^, m iQoc&iiL 



The Areka pahii is the Arc/m catecfyi, <rf 

 hotaiiists ; it is a paliit ot" elegant ^"rowth, rising- 

 with a very erect and small stem to the height 

 of forty or mmi sixty feet, the summit termi- 

 nating in a tuft of datfe-gt^eett folii^ ; the cir* 

 CUDalerence of the trunk is seldom more than 

 one-and-a-lialf tr) two h:et, whtn of rarly growth 

 of dark-green, and when old of a ilark-n ivy co- 

 lour j the circles formed by the chisping petioles 

 of the fe'oiids being very visible upon it t the 

 tret' hears frnii only (mce during the yeaiv. ;i( 

 which period the tree, with its lono- Imnelies of 

 orange oval-shaiicd fruit, pendent froiii the 



