The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . lour, something like a small date,in August. The blossoms, which are pro-duced in great abundance, perfume theair for a considerable distance this reason it is a most desirabletree for a lawn or shrubbery. French, Olivier de Bolieme; Genbaume. Wilde OeU[C. A. J.] A genus of palms comprisingthe Oil Palm of Africa, and another closelyallied American species. They have thicktrunks of no great height, indeed theAmerican species creeps along the ground,
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . lour, something like a small date,in August. The blossoms, which are pro-duced in great abundance, perfume theair for a considerable distance this reason it is a most desirabletree for a lawn or shrubbery. French, Olivier de Bolieme; Genbaume. Wilde OeU[C. A. J.] A genus of palms comprisingthe Oil Palm of Africa, and another closelyallied American species. They have thicktrunks of no great height, indeed theAmerican species creeps along the ground,and bears a tuft of large pinnate leaves,with strong prickly stalks. The male andfemale flowers are borne in distinct heads,generally upon different trees, but occa-sionally upon the same ; each head consist-ing of numerous little branches of minuteflowers, gathered together into a densemass and enclosed while young in twocomplete spathes. The males are packedvery close together, so that the branchesresemble catkins; the females are spreadfarther apart. The fruit, wliicli is yellowor bright red, is irregular in form, gener-. EIebis guineensis. ally angular and somewhat three-sided, andlarger at the bottom tlan the top. It con-sists of an outer coating of fibrous oilyflesh, surrounding a hard nut. E. guineen-sis, the African Oil Palm, which yields thecelebrated palm oil, is a native of tropicalWestern Africa, where it is found in greatabundance; and from whence it has beenintroduced into the West Indies. It growstwenty or thirtyfeet high, the trunk beingcovered with the remains of the stalks ofdead leaves. The fruits are borne indense heads, measuring a foot and a halfor two feet Ions, and from two to threefeet in circumference, the individualfruits being about an inch and a halflong, by an inch in diameter. The partyielding the palm oil is the outer fleshycoating of the fruit, but the seed, whichis enclosed in a hard shell, likewise affordsan oil, small quantities of which occa
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