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QUASSIA SIMARUBA. SIMARUB A QUASSIA.* 



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ST NO NT MA. Simrouba. Fharm. Lond, b' ^^Z;?^. Simaruba 



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amara. Aublet Hiji, des Plant es de la Guiane Fran^oife. torn, u. 



p. 859. /<?^. 331, 332. Euonymus friidu nigro tetragono, -vulgo 



Simarouba. Barrere France eqtdnoxiale. p. 50. . Le Simarouba 

 vel Bois amer. Des Marc ha is. Voyages en Guinee et a Cayenne^ 

 vol, a. p. 124. Bancroft's Nat, Hijl. of Guiana^ p. "84. A 

 Botanical and Medical account of the Quaffi a Simaruba. V/right 

 in the Tranfa£lions of the Royal Society of Fd'inb, vol, ii.p. 73. '&feq. 



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Clafs Decandria. Ord, Monogynia. Lin, Gen, Plant, 529. 



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-Ej^. G^;^. CZ'. C^/. 5-phyIlus. Pctala 5. NeBarium 5-phylluni. 



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• Perlcarpla 5, diftantia, i-fperma. - 



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Bp, Ch, Q^florlbus monoids, foliis abrupte pinnatis : foliolis alternis 



fubpetiolatis, petiolo nudo, fioribus paniculatis. Snpp, Plant, 



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THIS tree grows to a confiderable height and tiiicknefs, and fends 

 ofF alternate fpreadlng branches : the bark, which covers the trunks 

 of the old trees, is black, and a little furrowed, but that of the younger 

 trees is fmooth, grey, and here and there marked with broad fpots of 

 a yellow colour : the wood is hard, white, and without any remarl 



tafte: the leaves are numerous, and ftand alternately upon the 

 branches ; each leaf is compofed of feveral pinnss, nearly of an ellip- 

 tical fhape, on the upper fide fmooth, and of a deep green colour, 

 on the under fide whitifh, and ftand alternately upon fliort footftalks: 

 the flowers are of a yellow colour, and placed on branched fpikes, 

 or long panicles : the calyx is fmall, and cut into five obtufe ered: 

 fegments: the corolla is divided into five petals, which are fefiile, 



„ * " This tree is known in Jamaica by the names of ¥Iountain Damfon Bitter 

 Lamfon, and Stave-wood. The fhops are fupplied with this bark from Guiaiu; but 



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