Part II. Of Vkntr. 185^ 
The Palm-Ifland. (a) The barren kind in Italy and ^ j.Bauh, 
Bjtily. 
The PALM-NET or BAG. The Tree which pro- 
duceth it called, Talma Saccifera. Whether Baubi?m$ 
giveth this under the Name of Tolium Nucis 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 5 yet is it above two feet long 5 at the bot- 
tom a foot broad 5 from whence it tapers to the top. 
Originally entire, like a taper d Bag , commonly call cl 
Hippocrates s Skive : but by fome .inconfiderate hand cut 
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 3 though not fo vifibly, and with 
variation. There is a five-fold Series of Tibers herein. 
The greater! 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 whitiih Line 3 which 
feems to be a Thred or Fiber of Aer-Ve/Jels growing there- 
to. Betwixt the faid large Ribs, there are others, as it were 
leffer, parallally interjected. On the infide a third Series 
alfo obliquely produced, and tranter fly to the former. 
The fourth and fifth, confiil of the fmalleft Fibers,not only 
tranter fly produced, but alfo alternately from the outfide 
to the infide of the Sack, <& vice versa. By which all the 
reft are mod 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 J. Bauhi- 
nus. (b) (b) L 3 . 
About the Year 15pp. the Hollanders, faith Clufius, re- c ' 1?6 ° 
turning from America, in an Ifland there, by them called 
C oronopes, 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 
