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high. The hark is brown on the trunk, and grey- 

 ish on the branches. The leaves are large and 

 longish, sharp-pointed, and dentated at the edges ; 

 they are of a dusky green on the upper side, and 

 brownish underneath. The flowers are incon- 

 siderable and yellowish. The fruit is small and 

 round. The buds of the tree are very fragrant ; 

 a brown kind of resin issue* from them, winch 

 sticks to the fingers, and this has that pleasant 

 smell. 



We use no part of the tree, but a resin which is 

 produced from it. The druggists keep this. It is 

 brown ; some of it is in grains, and some in a 

 mass. It is used only externally : a plaister made 

 of it, spread on leather, is applied to the fore- 

 head against the head-ach ; and to the navel in 



hvsfc.i'ic cases, but it does not seem to have much 



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Tamarl v t> Tkee. TamcrniJus 



A very pretty tree, native both of the East 

 and West indies, and kept in many of our gardens. 

 The trunk is covered with a pale coloured rough 

 bark ; the blanches with a smoother. The leaves 

 are each composed of a great many pairs of smaller, 

 disposed on a common rib, with no odd one at the 

 end. They are small, oval, and of a pale or 

 whitish green. The flowers are large, and very 

 pretty ; they are part yellow, and part white ; the 

 white leaves of them stained often with red. They 

 stand in clusters, half a dozen together. The fruit 

 is a flat pod, broad, brown, and hard ; these contain 

 a pulpy substance, and the seeds a stringy mallei 

 with them. The pulp, strings, and seeds are 

 brought over to us, vied the pulp i c separated for 

 u<e : it is of a plea -ant acid taste, and is a gentle 



