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- [Footnote: of palms. "In palmetis, Pihiguao consitis, singuli trunci
quotannis fere 400 fructus ferunt pomiformes, tritumque est verbum inter Fratres S. Francisci, ad ripas Orinoci et Gauiniæ degentes, mire pinguescere Indorum corpora, quoties uberem Palmæ fructum fundant." (Humboldt, de Distrib. geogr. Plant. p. 240.)]*