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Adansonia, Ethiopian Sour Gourd, Monkeys' Bread

or AFRICAN CALABASH TREE. -There is but one known species belonging to this genus, the baobal, which is perhaps the largest production of the whole vegetable kingdom. It is a native of Africa. The trunk is not above twelve or fifteen feet high, but from sixty to seventy feet round. The lowest