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 he nukes a profit of about aoL per annum, by felling it 

 for the purpofc of poifoning hymn* The fruit j* 

 poiuidal into a powtlcr. and adminiltcrcd in the fame 

 manner as the Nux Vomica. The powder b put into 

 the carcafes of lambs, fee. which arc laid where the 

 hywnaa arc known to come. By citing the ikil. ih c y 

 arc infallibly dcltroycd. 



This plant flowers and bears fruit annually in the (love 

 of ihc Right Honourable the Earl of Tankcrvillc, at Wal- 

 ton, the only place it has yet flowered at in this country ; 

 and I believe it is in no other collection in England except 

 at Kcw. Our figure of the female was drawn from iht 

 plant in his Lordlhip's ftovc in 1795; the male from a 

 Specimen very obligingly communicatr.1 iu me br Mr. 

 F.Maflbn. 



