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one ; they are all Tubulated : the anther* are 

 creeled and oblong : the germen is long, and 

 lanated : the fly his is Tubulated : the fligma is 

 deflected and barbated : the flowers are verti- 

 cillated, red and deciduous. The fruit which 

 lay under this tree (if it may be called fo) 

 was a narrow rhomboidal pod (Jcgumoi) : it 

 contained two kidney-fliapedym/j. The tree 

 was as high as a man's, head, and very ra- 

 mofe : it had no leaves at that time, but fine 

 fcatlet flowers. It may be compared with the 

 Gedala litorea ; Malaice Gclala laut et Gelala 

 itam ; Badcnflbus Dadab. Rumph. 'Tom. iii. p. 

 231. /. 77. This author fays, the tree is in 

 bloffom at the latter end of July, and the 

 leaves fall off about that time. In the middle 

 of Auguft the flowers drop. In September 

 comes the fruit and the frelh leaves. The 

 blood-coloured parrots called Luris like thefe 

 flowers exceedingly ; about the time that the 

 trees are in bloffom, they flock about them, and 

 fuck the juice out of the Neilaria ; and at that 

 time they are caught in fprmges fixed to the 

 boughs of the trees. The above-mentioned 

 author fhews the ufe of the leaves and bark 

 in phyfic; on the latter of which grew Byffus 

 candelaris, and on the root Onoclca fenftbilis 



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