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Show The Travelers' Tree. Ono of tho most curious, useful and beautiful palm trees found in dark and mysterious Madagascar is known as tho "travolors' troo," or Itavennda Madagascarlonsls, as tho scientists, with their ronowncd lovo of slmplo terms, lovo to call it. The stem re-somblcs re-somblcs that of the plantain troo, and tho leaves spread In a semicircle llko an oxpanded fan, The lower loaves drop oft as tho Btom grows, nnd in an old troe tho lowest leaves ot tho fan aro often as high as thirty feet from tho ground. This palm troe rccolvos Its popular namo from tbo fact that stores ot pure and frequently cool water wa-ter are found In the largo cupllko sheaths of tho stalks, which tho traveler trav-eler may readily secure by tapping tho sheaths at the baso. |