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The Trees on the other Side, which are ligneous, 
hard and perennial, bear Fruit feveral times. The 
Bignefs then of a Plant does not feem to be a Charader 
fufficient to diftinguilh a real Tree from a Plant that is 
not one. 
Again, the fame Botanifts have placed the Mu/a in 
the Palmaceous Clafs, which are all Frees, perhaps on 
account of this Plant’s having but one Stalk, without 
any Branches^ and becaufe the great Leaves at the 
Top of it divide, when they grow old, in fuch a 
manner as to refemble in fome Degree a Sort of Palm, 
Having had an Opportunity in the Indies to confi- 
der this Plant better, I foon found that it juftly be* 
longed to the Liliaceous Tribe. It is known that 
the Liliaceous Plants have feveral Charaders, which 
diftinguifti them very well. Their Roots are either 
bulbous, tuberous, or confiding of thick, flefliy Fibres: 
Their Leaves involve the Stalk, more or lefs at their 
Bafes. The Subftance of their Flowers is filled with 
filver Spangles j and laftly, their Fruits are always di- 
vided into three Cells. The Mufa has all thefe Cha* 
raders. Father Lahat fays in his Travels, that the 
Root of this Plant is a thick Bulb, round and maffy, 
emitting Fibres. Marcgrave^ who has given a full 
Defcription of this Plant under the Name of Pacoeira^ 
has obferved, that, at its firft appearance, it fends 
forth two or three Leaves, rolled up like a Horn, which 
unroll themfelves, and grow after the Manner of the 
Cannacorus, And, according to my Obfervation, the 
Fruit in all its Species, is conftantly divided into three 
Cells, which is fufficient to (hew, that it is a trueZi/i- 
' aceous Plant 
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