Note 2918 — BOOK XVII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CULTIVATED TREES.
John Bostock translation
The palm is grown in Africa from shoots thrown out from the axillæ of the leaves; and it is in this circumstance, Fée thinks, that the story told by Trogus must have originated. Some of the ferns throw out adventitious buds from the summit of the leaf, and the orange tree and some others occasionally have them at the base of the leaf.