Part II 
Of Nuts, 
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finning 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 
Picea 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 Cone $ 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 moft obfervable , and whereof no 
Author takes notice either in the Defcription or Figure 
of this Fruit , is this , That the Scales which compofe 
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, foasto 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 Co?ie are 
open towards the point of the Cone, yet even hereby they 
anfwer the fame end 5 becaufe it always or moft com- 
monly hangs upon the Tree with the point down- 
ward. # 
This Fruit is pi&ur'd in Bejler, Tab. 1 . But miftakenly, 
for the Arecca or Faveel. 
The CONICK YECOTL. I find it not defcribU 
'Tis much lefs than the former, in length, an inch and 
? d $ in the middle near an inch thick. Slenderer at both 
ends, and the upper plainly taper J d. The Scales, as in the 
former. 
Of the Leaves (a) of this Shrub, the Indians make a fort 00 Ximenes 
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 Banhinm, un- 
der the Title of Nux Indica Tejfellata. They grow in 
Guyana. 
A Great PALMACOCO-NUT. Baubinus defcribes (b) 0) Tom, u 
another Species by the Name of FruStus Palma NuciferS. 
Perhaps the Tree may not be improperly callcl Pahiacocm, 
as bearing a Fruit, though fmall, yet refembling the Coco- 
Dd Jhell* 
