THE BEE, 
LITERARY WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 
FOR 
Wepnespay, OcToser 16. 1793. 
DEscRIPTION OF A SINGULAR PLANT FROM BOTANY 
BAY. ; 
With a figure. 
Tue plate that accompanies this number, exhibits a 
representation of one of the most singular vegetable 
productions that has been discovered in our late set- 
tlement in New South Wales. The stump is peren- 
nial, but the leaves and seed stalk are annual. The 
perennial stump rises to the height of six feet ot 
thereby, is of a conical fhape, and hard consistence ; 
but whether it be internally of a fibrous texture 
like wood, my information does not enable me to 
say. On the surface it is covered ail over with blind 
# wart like tubercles or excrescences, somewhat resemb-= 
ling the protuberances of pollards, that swell out be- 
low the place where the tree has been cut over ; but 
from these no stems ever fhoot forth. There oozes 
out from the whole of its surface a great abundance 
of a viscid juice, of a yellowifh colour, which accumu. 
lating in the hollows, becomes a semifluid concretion 
VOL, XVii. FF 2 ' t 
