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at the top, and have alternate tranfverfal 

 nerves. 



Hernandia finora. Of this great re- 

 markable tree I only law two on the fhore. 

 It affords a fure antidote againfl: poiibn, if 

 you either put its fmall roots on the wounds, 

 or eat them ; as was discovered to Rumphius by 

 a captive woman in the war between the People 

 of Macafar and the Dutch in the year 1667. 

 The foldiers of the former always carry this root 

 about them, as a remedy againfl; wounds with 

 poifonous arrows. The leaves of this tree 

 are thick and fmooth. Another tree like this, 

 which likewife grew here, had not fuch thick 

 and fmooth leaves. 



Melia Parafitica, a little plant of fcarce a 

 finger's length, grew on the Items of the trees. 

 It is fo fcarce, that, as far as I know, it has 

 never been noticed before. The calyx is mo- 

 nophyllous, tridentated, cylindrical, and is 

 half the length of the corolla : the corolla is 

 monopetalous, cylindrical, quinquefid, with 

 oblong lacini<e : the neclarium is bell-fhaped, 

 pbtufe on the margin : on the inner fide of the 

 margin ten extremely fmall filaments are fitua- 

 fed : the aritbera are almoft quadrangular : 



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