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The Tac AM AH AC Tree. 

 TACAMAHACCA. 



Large and beautiful Tree, Native of the 

 Eaji^ and of America, It is fifty or fixty 

 Feet high. The Bark is brown on the Trunk, 

 and greyifh on the Branches. The Leaves are 

 large and longifh, Iharp-pointed, and dentated at 

 the Edges, they are of a dufiry Green on the up- 

 per Side, and browniili underneath. The Flowers 

 are inconfiderable, and yellowifn. The Fruit is 

 fmall and round. The Buds of the Tree are very 

 fragrant, a brown Kind of Refin iffues from them, 

 Avhich flicks to the Fingers, and this has tha^ 

 pleafant Smell. 



We ufe no Part of the Tree, but a Refin which 

 is produced fropi it. The Druggifts keep this. 

 It is brown, fome of it is in Grains, and fome in 

 a Mafs. It is ufed only externally, a Plaiiler 

 made of it, Ipread on Leather, is applied to the 

 Forehead againfl the Head-ach ; and to the Na- 

 vel in hyflieric Cafes, but ic does not feem to hive 

 niuch Efficacy. 



The Tamarind T i 



TAMARINDUS. 



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A Very pretty Tree, Native both of the £ffi 

 '^ and Weft-Indies, and kept in many of our 

 Gardens. The Trunk is covered with a pale 



coloured rough B<irk, the Branchfs with a fmoo- 



iher. The Leaves are each ccmpofed of a great 



n:r.ny Pairs of fmaller^ depofedon a common Rib, 



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