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In this Volume our Author (ttsionh trees moxtnm^^d]. 
and feemingly ftrange than in either of the other. At firft 
he prefents you with a monftrous Falm tree which he calls 
CoddapannaSxVtTalma montmaMalabaricayZXi^ fays that a- 
bout the five or fix and thirtieth year of its age it rifeth to 
be about 60 or 70 feet high w'*" plicated leaves near round, 
20 feet broad wherewith they ufiially cover their Houfes^ 
and part of one leaf mdkt%diBook^ between whofe folds 
they ftamp their CharaUers entring the outward Cuticle and 
there remains the imprejjlon^ which proves moft durable 
or JR^cords or the like^ but bearing neither flowers nor fruits 
in that time; out of the top bud whereof rifeth forth a new 
which in 3 or 4 months time becomes 30 feet high; a- 
bout which time the leaves Ml off* & there appears a plalne, 
naked ^ upright^ ftreight tree, from the fides of which 
new {hoot,in about 3 months more fpring forth divers na- 
ked ftreight parts from every fide rounds the lower whereof 
may be 20 feet long, Whereof there is a large pattern in 
Mr. Ajhmoles Mufceum at Oxford, Afterwards thefe branches 
are adorned \yith abundance (miW white flowers gxomx\g 
in bunches or bundles moft pleafant to behold, which fall- 
ing away are fucceeded by great (lore of round fruits hang- 
ing on the fmall branches of an Ofeous fubftance with 
plump S^rnells in the middle, which being eaten caufe 
Vomitings and not of much ufe. This may probably be that 
mentioned by G. Bauhine^Arhorfolijsfexbrachiorumlongis^ 
cujus folio extenfotres quatuorve viri in itinere operiuntur tit 
pluvias nonmetuant. 
To exprefs this fo notable a thing and all its partSj the 
Author hath employed 1 2 plates. 
There is another which is referred to the Palmes very 
ftrange^ called Todda-panna ; to fet forth its feveral parts> 
ftiapes and tranfmutations:» our Author hath beftov/ed nine 
plates:.the whole growing about 30 feet high, with afbrange 
body about a foot and half or 2 feet diameter, with many 
joints and as it vitrit Horizontal articulations. 
Another he calls which is alfo referred to 
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