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the Palme/ with z Plum lil^ Fruit, to fiiew the parrs of 
which he^ives 4 Plates. 
TJiak^maram<3 Filau Malabarenfibm laqueira Lujita^ 
nis*^ is a large Timber Tree, bearing its fruits fome what 
extraordinary hanging out of the body of the tree and 
large branches;, not on the fmall branches as oth^r trees 
do> each one a cubit long of an oval form all over prickly 
of which our v5rz^^^(?rparticalarizeth the parrs on the three 
Plates. 
He tells us alfo of a Tree of a vaft bignefs^ v^bich he calls 
Atti-meer^aku » of 50 feet commonly in circumference, 
whereof there is one in the Provine oi Cochin by the Temple 
BayJ^m^ which they fay hath been there growing 200D 
yearsi 
Many other things might hare been obferved as things 
very unufal in thefe parts of the world, which we leave 
the curious Reader farthertofatisfy himfelfof^ from the 
work it (elf- 
P II. Epiftoh 
I. 
