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[[left margin in red]] Georgetown Demerara [[/left margin in red]]
stranded on my beach in Florida a few years ago and of which I prepared the skeleton.  Also saw a [[red underlined]] mongoose [[/red underlined]] rush over the road. Air about noon humid and warm altho' thermometer only shows about 85-87°. Perspiring violently, but considerable [[red underlined]] relief wherever the trade-wind strikes thru. [[/red underlined]] In the afternoon about 4 P.M when stores close the air became [[red underlined]] pleasantly cooler [[/red underlined]] showing 80°F. Some of the Palm trees were very near to me: The [[black and red underlined]] Double [[/black and red underlined]] [[red underlined]] Coconut Palmͯ [[/red underlined]] 
exists in two varieties.
[[left margin]] ͯ from the Seychelles Islands [[/left margin]] 
One has enormous coconuts growing rather close to the ground and growing in pairs altho' possessing each separate 
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for each nut. The [[red underlined]] diameter of these nuts [[/red underlined]] varies [[red underlined]] from 1½ to 2 feet! [[/red underlined]] Am told that sap and nut taste about the same as the ordinary coconut. The other variety gives a double nut jointed together into a shape like the form of an enormous scrotum.
[[image: drawing of double nut]]
Another remarkable palm ^[[is]] the [[underlined]] Corypha [[/underlined]] [[black and red underlined]] Umbraculafera ͯ [[/black and red underlined]] thus called probably on account of its [[red underlined]] extraordinarily broad leaves [[/red underlined]] which [[red underlined]] might furnish giant umbrellas. [[/red underlined]]
[[left margin]] ͯ Talipot palm. Tropical Africa and India [[/left margin]] 
The stems of the leaves are equally enormous and some of the lower stubs bear inscriptions of name and address of numerous visitors which scratched them on the skin of the [[strikethrough]] ste [[/strikethrough]] stems.
Our [[underlined]] Areca lutescens [[/underlined]] is called here [[underlined]] Chrysalidocarpus [[strikethrough]] l [[/strikethrough]] lutescens [[/underlined]] (or sugar cane palm