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tffeft as Teflaceous Powders, and arc ufed inftead of Oculi 
CmcroYum* 
TherearefeveraITrees,oneof which will be above 6 fathom 
high, whofe Root (i timy fay) grows above ground, after 
the following manTier,when the Twig is about one half foot 
high aboveGroand,there grows out ot the middle of the ftem a 
little knot which grows downward, making an angle v/ith the 
ftem of 30 Degrees or thereabout until it touch the Ground, 
tlien it fixes in the Ground, fending forth fmall Sprigs, which 
before it touched the Ground had neither Branch nor Leaves, 
but all evergreen even like a (hoot. While this (boot gro*ws and 
thcStemgrowshigher.it ftill fhoots forth oth^r fhcots,which^ 
always comes out of the middle of the Tree or Trunk 5 thus 
it continues (hooting forth thefe (hoots, ontil the Tree be 
at his full growth, and the higher the Trees grow, the 
knots and the fhoots are the thicker and longer, fo that one 
of the fhoots which grows laflr, will be a foot thick of Dia- 
meter, and 3 fathom long. 
Now the Flower which is called Happumal grows upon 
^ Tree that grows after this manner.and grows only two fa- 
thom high, if they be planted round about an Orchard they 
are an excellent Hedge,for the Leaves are thorny and full of 
pricks, when the Flower decays it carries a Fruit like a Pine- 
apple, but is for no ufe. 
Some Naturalifts affirm all Plants to hive a Heart, or fome- 
thing analogous to it 5 it would be worthy the enquiry in 
v/hat place the Heart ot thefe kind of Trees is, as alfo the 
Palmito and Coco tree. 
It is very difBcuit to know which of thefe two have a 
greater refptd given to them, the Budun or Sctkrddemndra. 
Sakrddmendra commands and governs all the reft of the 
Gods.and did hear formerly the Prayers that were offered up ^ 
to him from diftreffed People here upon Earth, and did grant' 
their requeft, but now the Golden Chair whereupon he ufed^ 
tc^ fit is gone, and the Prayers v/bich are offered up to him 
now have no effeftj bccaufe the foot of that Chair v/ae 
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