. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . high, but of the vast circum-ference of sixty or seventy feet. The lateral brancheswere forty or fifty feet long, of the thickness of agreat tree, and with their remote branches touchingthe ground; while some of the roots that had beenlaid bare were upwards of a hundred feet long, andeven then were not exposed for their whole fruit is from nine to twelve inches long, andabout four in diameter, of a brownish colour, andrather pointed toward the extremities. The pulp isa little farinaceous
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . high, but of the vast circum-ference of sixty or seventy feet. The lateral brancheswere forty or fifty feet long, of the thickness of agreat tree, and with their remote branches touchingthe ground; while some of the roots that had beenlaid bare were upwards of a hundred feet long, andeven then were not exposed for their whole fruit is from nine to twelve inches long, andabout four in diameter, of a brownish colour, andrather pointed toward the extremities. The pulp isa little farinaceous, mixed with fibres: when recent,it has a very refreshing, acid taste; and eaten withsugar, it is both pleasant and wholesome. It retainsits cooHng qualities when dry ; and, on that account,the physicians of Cairo administer it in fevers andether diseases. Chapter X. FRUITS OF THB WEST INDIA ISLANDS, AND THE SOUTHAMERICAN CONTINENT.—PINE-APPLE; MAMMEE ;ALLIGATOR-PEAR ; ANCHOVY-PEAR ; CUSTARD-AP-PLES ; WILD PLUMS ; STAR-APPLE ; CACTUS ; PAP AW ;GRENADILLAS ; COCOA-NUT ; CASHEW-NUT ; The Pine-apple—Bromelia. The earliest exchanges of tropical plants that tookplace between the Portuguese in the east, and theSpaniards in the west, have not been recorded with THE riNE-ArPLE. 377. perfect accuracy, so that we are not alisolutely certainthat the ])ine-apple may not be a native of some partsof Asia, and even of Africa, as well as of it is a native of the West is certain, however, asall the varieties, except some of the trivial ones arising;from cultivation, are found wild on the continent orthe islands of tliat quarter of the world. The Bronielias have been variously described;—some having formed them into three or four distinctgenera, and others considered them as only speciesof one. In the Hortus Kewensis, in the formationof which the very best authorities have been con-sulted, six species are enumerated; and, with theexception of the Bromelia humilis (dwar
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