P a it t II. Of Plants. 185 
The Palm-IJland. ( a ) The barren kind in Tidy and M t Bauh> 
Sicily. 
The PALM-NET or BAG. The Tree which pro- 
dneeth it called, Palma Saccifera. Whether Bauhinus 
giveth this under the Name of Folium Nucis Indict, 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 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’d 
Hippocrates’s Sleive: but by fome mconfiderate 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; 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 inlide the Sack, runs a frnall whitifh Line; which 
feems to be a Thred or Fiber of Aer-Vej[els growing there¬ 
to. Betwixt the faid large Ribs, there are others, as it were 
leffer, parallally interjected. On the inlide a third Series 
alfo obliquely produced, and tranfverjly to the former. 
The fourth and fifth, conlift of the fmalleft Fibers,not only 
tranfverjly produced, but alfo alternately from the outlide 
to the inlide 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 W ork. See one like to this in J. Baubi- 
nm. (b) " o) L 3 . 
About the Year 1 the Hollanders, faith Clufius, re- < " l l 6 ' 
turning from America , in an Jjland there, by them called 
Coronopes , found whole Woods of this Tree: and, probably, 
then firft difeover’d the fame to Europe . 
A LEAF of the ROCOUR-TREE. ’Tis near I afoot 
long, four inches broad, the lower end Oval or Elliptiek, 
B b pointed 
