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FLORA VITIENSIS. 
‘ Parthenon.’ ‘ and Hyphena Thebar hi 
Hithiopum, Mi a there is a Palm in Nubia re oe patie niin ire disposed of b 
Hi araea By 3; ony has a fruit quite as large Pe secs st in Upper Egypt oe nae in the 
: 8 of which has evider as some of the middl . a eleb 
Date-palin 0 } 3 evidently been th iddle-sized kind: 1 (Bora 
_ from whieh the capi y been the prototype of the col nds GeClcbomauish dead ed 
swelling in the trun! apitals were copied (as is evident 1 e columns seen in Egypti “hut, and tt 
kK, ee ; ; i egyptian t ne 
hotghe alien nk Mere i auconeiderabl evi ent in the great temple of ’ emples ; 
; grees with that erable quantity of wate ; Reena Ce Edfou), havi i the 
favour of this tre mentioned in the ater in the fruit of th » haying no 
eas that Ne apostrophe t] b : ine Deleb- Tia: 5 such 
the Cocoa-nubt t that meant by the Ma , the balance of evid palm ; and as j 
: ree: it is tl : ma-en-khanent, Thi dence would r: 8 Its 
thought to be ; 1 18 the Palm of T Yi ye is same Palm hz ; rather seem i 
Aithiopum be Cocos nucifera, until, in a date fad : vis e 5 aca panied er pais been sipthhae oe 
7 t he 7 = . . rroneo . ; 
The cil of th ore the Linnean Society, 1 us informati 
e Cocoa- y, I showed it ation 
nevertheless, it is diffi a-nut Palm, or Niu dina, I to be Borassus 
Wesleyan : oe ee cult to arrive at an ett — long been one of th : re 
er clon atniaee 4 ae with eae ey the average aia ere from Viti 
hands. Thi its funds, were read ; or the transport of the oi uantity shipped 3 
’ is, at the rate oft £5 ady to guarantee that I 0 the oil reeeived ‘f pped. The 
annum—a sum toler ; 20 per tun th ‘ hat at least sixty t rom the nati 
of ably well agreei , the average value of the oi y tuns should pass t allyes 
sionary Notices’ as tl y well agreemg with that u Fail of the oil on the spot pass through hi 
of the quantity as the Fijian share tow: d Bnet advertised on the w spot, would give £120 e 
‘ shipped by th ards the sup sort of eae 1é@ wrapper of the ‘ 200 per 
subject, they pped by the actual trad port of the Society. Ex: ie Wesleyan Mi 
: y pretty nearly al traders are altogether w y. Exact data for formi yan Mis. 
of the whole y nearly all agreed in fixi gether wanting, O r forming an opini 
group, =£6000 2 ing three hundred t g. Onconsulting with s g an opinion 
native process bei > of on the spot. Hitl red tuns as the utmost limi ith several about thi 
4 5 a re 7 ey 5 : thi 
Sydney, set eing of a primitive descripti ierto, there has been gr nost limit of the am Pe 
ydney, set up proper me nt scription. To remed ; | great waste in tl annual export 
rized himself witl achinery on thei medy this evil. Captai in the making of oi 
Bee tubesb ali 1eir estate at S , Captain Wilsc cn oil, the 
at a temperatu , aves improvement in th; pomosono, atter : son and M. Joub 
Ape ® ature of about 72° Fahr iat branch of industry 1 one of the partners h ert, of 
degree, a proper amount ey ir., aud the thermometer duri stry in Ceylon, C 8 had familia- 
etal ah adnan Rt a eaaC rae Tite :ometer during the es iiiees ocoa-nut oil congeali 
authority al Sten. et enon Mead drach pt up whilst the operatio months often falli gealing 
ae : quar rates ation of pressi ng below th 
Cocoa-nut e of the scientific me otis juantity of oil from the | pressing the pulvert ay 
, green and a br n attached to his expediti ne least number of pulverized kernel 
not only the col a brown. Close his expedition, states of nuts. Wilke z 
= Des our, but al er attention to tl tke that there we ces, upon the 
saupvloanet thestcath also the average si 1e subject would | were only two varieti 
tre atlets 4 5 Sa ave ~ u ties of 
which the isla eaflets, or rather seg = ae and shape of th fruj jave shown this to b = 
nds are st ements, offer marks of disti e fruits, the hei s to be a mistake; 
turkey’s e studded. Tl Wal sof distincti 3 ieight of th C; 
eo, and beari 1e most strik Rate inction betwe e trees, and th 
about Yarabal aring more than a | ing kind is the Yeen the numero bse e 
arabale, a narrow : 1undred of them i one having fruit us varieties with 
meron of a Cocoa-nt isthmus, where cat mineach bunch, § wits mot much larg 
. vy at i ; a . ‘ ar . ci than 
in Fiji; and t nut Palm becoming brancl 1oes are dragged across fr everal trees were noticed a ; 
trees ap Has i interesting inst we ned by the divisi , ss from sea to sea. T at Kadavu, 
; eribed with fi e ances of it are given 1 sion of the trunk, h S) he curious phe 
just pride by tk ith hve branches, In S given in Williams’s ‘ Fiji , has occasionally be | pneno- 
Polynesia Pee eee who po » In Samoa Mr, W. Prite s’s ‘ Fiji and the Fijians,’ y een witnessed 
: the trunk 1 ssessed it, and ¢ . Pritchard saw ¢ un 8 Hians, where o : 
it are impenet ismadeinto small ¢ cut down during aw a tree with two heac ne of the 
ablation ball small canoes, or uring a war by their and reads, regarded with 
are oceasionally tl Sate ieilencdy are supplies materials f eir enemies, Asi ae 
\ ‘3 joa acute cabo iit rials for buildi s in other parts of 
enclosing the Py 1atehed with them, b nade into differ . ilding and fenci pena 
: I ; . : ; nt kinds of d fencing; sti ok 
fastening owers 1s used f , but these roots d ent kinds of mats : g; stockades of 
|! aubhentLleine or torches: the fi o not last mucl s and baskets ; h 
refreshing dri inds. The y + VOR bres surroundi uch longer th 7 ae 
@ drink, whiel young flesh is delici unding the nut 7 ana year, Th 
names. New é h, as the fruit ady elicious eatin = are made into si yaa . spathe 
the natives ees soon fix u ances, undergoes a g g, and the “ water” “‘sinnet,” used for 
: ey will readi ; pon a certain st gradual ehan f contained in th 
ab iostrainked eadily pick it out b stage most agree: ge, for all of which tl e nuts a 
‘hard, 1 did sked nut, and be guid ut by knocking witl agreeable to their pals i there are distinctive 
: not succeed i guided by the so 5 1 their fingers palate, and on indicating 1 
are grated and eed in learning und, This on the outside of ei ating it to 
grated and used f ning at least th process re ide of either th 
when me or pudd aes e sound quires lo : r ve husked 
the Atvien tne see of eee: given to fowls fe that stage I itt pie and, though trying 
of dee seedlings of the Bohlin taste which the ore Some persons a. ne s The ripe vue 
than one ¢ rees are formed b ssus ? Althiopua iatic shares in eati a predilection for nuts 
dollar; and | y white settl pum, Mart. Iti eating the yo 
ern ; and how easi ers. The ¢ is to be young Palmyras, and 
ae raised! Every pet 10,000 een annual value of a pees that so few plantations 
soon, as eee purpose, Only Bae smaller ek. ee ground, sees tree is never less 
es y bave reach BE Sea. FMS. ; S and the i e value of a9 
water. a Have reac edac iwa, and the distri sea-borde . an estate be 
layer of marl fo fruits are few eae een become Theaiee adjacent, fori 3 the larger are localities 
, forming the subsoil of mber, poor, and oft ased; their leave Ic exception; the trees, as 
of those districts ten drop off b s look as if dipped in boil 
ricts, seeming t efore they arriy pped im boiling 
g to oppose that ready dr eas at maturity; a thick 
age which the Cocoa-nut 
quires ‘hi 1 
3 and W hich it en] it i 
OVS 10 80 W saud an 
Doum (Phenix dactylifera 


