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The Palm-IJland. (a) The barren kind in Italy and w j <Bauhe 
Sicily, 
The PALM-NET or BAG. The Tree which pro- 
duceth it called, Talma Saccifera. Whether Bauhinm 
giveth this under the Name of Folium Nuc'ps Indies, is 
uncertain. If fo, both the Figure and Defcription are very 
imperfect. 
Some part of it hath been cut off both at the bottom 
and on the fide $ yet is it above two feet long $ at the bot- 
tom a foot broad 5 from whence it tapers to the top, 
Originally entire, like a taper d Bag , commonly calFd 
Hippocrates $ Skive : but by fome inconfiderate hand cue 
open on one fide. 
'Tis naturally fewed or woven together with admirable 
Art. And yet not with more, than that which may be 
obferved in every Plant 5 though not fo vifibly, and with 
variation. There is a five-fold Series of Fibers herein. 
The greateft of all fwell out above the reft, and like fo 
many Ribs, are obliquely produced on both hands, fo as 
to encompafs the Sack. Along each of thefe woody Ribs ? 
on the infide the Sack, runs a fmall whitilh Line 3 which 
fecms to be a Thred or Fiber of Aer-Vejfels growing there- 
to. Betwixt the faid large Ribs, there are others, as it were 
leffer, paraUaUy interjected. On the infide a third Series 
alfo obliquely produced, and tranfverjly to the former. 
The fourth and fifth, confift of the fmalleft Fibers,not only 
tranjverjly produced, but alfo alternately from the outfide 
to the infide of the Sack, is vice versa. By which all the 
reft are moft elaborately woven into one entire and ftrong 
piece of Work. A Cover which Nature hath provided, 
to protect the delicate Fruit of this Tree,from all the extre- 
mities of the weather, and the ravine of Birds. 
Another PALM-SACK or Net, almoft a yard long, and 
made of different Work. See one like to this in Bauhi- 
71U6. (b) . (b) L 3 . 
About the Year 1 5^. the Hollanders, faith Clufim, re- c * 1?6 ' 
turning from America, in an I/land there, by them called 
Coronopes, found whole Woods of this Tree : and, probably, 
then firft difcover'd the fame to Europe. 
A LEAF of the ROCOUR-TREE. 'Tis near \ a foot 
long, four inches broad, the lower end Oval or Elliptick, 
B b pointed 
