Part II. 
Of Nuts. 2di 
fhining Bay. Compofcd of Scales, from the middle (where 
they are about i an inch broad) growing Idler 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 5 here 
(fo far as can be guefs’d by the found) we have but one 
fingle Kernel , within the hollow of the Shell. 
But that which is moft obfervablc, 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 outmolf ends or points downwards, or towards the 
Bafe of the Shell, as of the Slates upon a Houfe towards the 
ground. A lingular 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 moft com¬ 
monly hangs upon the Tree with the point down¬ 
ward. 
This Fruit is pictur’d i nBefler, Tab. 1. But miftakenly, 
for the Arecca or Faveel. 
The CONICK YECOTL. I find it not deferib’d. 
’Tis mucl) lefs than the former 5 in length, an inch and 
j d 5 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 « Ximenes 
of Thread. 
A SCALED FRUIT a kin to the YECOTL. ’Tis of a 
rounder Figure, alrnoft like a Pippin, and about as big as 
a midhng Peach. See the Figure hereof in Baubinm, un¬ 
der the Title of Nux Indica Tefell at a. They grow in 
Guyana. 
A Great PALMACOCO-NUT. Paidunus deferibes (b) (L Tom. 1 
another Species by the Name of Fruclm Palmas Nucifera. 
Perhaps the Tree may not be improperly call’d Palmacocus, 
as bearing a Fruit, though frnall, yet refembling the Coco- 
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