Part If 
lhining Bay. Compofed of Scales, from the middle (where 
they are about * an inch broad) growing leffer towards 
both ends, fo as in fome fort to referable a Cone , of the 
Ticea Latin : or Male Fin-Tree. Yet a quite different 
Fruit : for whereas in a Cone, the Seeds or Kernels are nu- 
merous, all placed between the Scales of the C one 5 here 
( fo far as can be guefs'd by the found ) we have but one 
{ingle Kernel, within the hollow of the Shell. 
But that which is mod obfervable , and whereof no 
Author takes notice either in the Defcription or Figure 
of this Fruit, is this, That the Scales which compofc 
the Shell, are not fo fet together , as to have their open 
ends or points upwards , as in a Cone : but on the con- 
trary, fo as to have their roots uppermoft, and their open 
and outmoft ends or points downwards, or towards the 
Bafe of the Shell, as of the Slates upon a Houfe towards the 
ground. A fingular contrivance of Nature, to prevent 
the rain from running into the hollow of the Shell, and fo 
rotting the Kernel. And although the Scales of a Cone are 
open towards the point of the Cone, yet even hereby they 
anfwer the fame end 5 becaufe it always or molt com- 
monly hangs upon the Tree with the point down- 
ward. 
This Fruit is pictur d in Bejler, Tab. 1 . But miftakenly, 
for the Arecca or Faveel. 
The CONICK YECOTL. I find it not defcrib'd. 
'Tis much lefs than the former 3 in length, an inch and 
j d 3 in the middle near an inch thick. Slenderer at both 
ends, and the upper plainly taper d. The Scales, as in the 
former. 
Of the Leaves [a) of this Shrub, the Indians make a fort GOXimenes 
of Thread. 
A SCALED FRUIT a kin to the YECOTL. 'Tis of a 
rounder Figure, almoft like a Pippin, and about as big as 
a midling Peach. See the Figure hereof in Bauhinus, un- 
der the Title of Nux Indica TejfeUata. They grow in 
Guyana. 
A Great PALM ACOCO-NUT. Bauhinus defcribes (b) (*) Tom « 1 i 
another Species by the Name of FrvMus Pal?n# Nucifera. 
Perhaps the Tree may not be improperly calFd Palmacocm, 
as bearing a Fruit, though fmall, yet refembling the Coco- 
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