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fagacious people had carried plants of the tree to their dif- 

 ferent villages, where they have it growing in great per- 

 fection, and more than fupply the ufes of the merchants. 



This tree grows to a great height, not inferior to that of 

 an Engliih elm; that from which this draught was made 

 was about two feet diameter ; the gum grows on all (ides of 

 the trunk, in quantity enough almolt to cover it, in form 

 of large globes, and fo it does on all the principal branches. 

 Thefe lumps are fometimes fo large as to weigh two pound, 

 though naturally very light. 



The bark of the tree is thin and of a bluifh colour, not 

 unlike that of a cherry-tree when young, or rather whiter. 

 The wood is white and hard, only the young branches 

 which carry the flower are red. The leaves are joined to 

 the fides of the fmall branches by a frnall pedicle of confi- 

 derable ftrength, the leaves are two and two, or oppofite to 

 each other, and have no lingle leaf at the point ; they are 

 ilrongly varnifhed both on one fide and the other, the back 

 rather lighter than the forefide of the leaf. 1 he branches 

 that carry the leaves have about an inch of the {talk bare, 

 where it is fixed to the larger branch. I here are generally 

 fourteen leaves, each of about three quarters of an inch 

 long. At the top of the branch are knots out of which 

 come three fmall italks, bare for about an inch and a half, 

 then having a number of fmall tubes, which, when they 

 open at the top, put forth a long piftil from the bottom of 

 the tube. The top of the tube, divided into five fegments, 

 or petals, arrives about one third up the piftil, and makes 

 the figure of a calix or perianthium to it. From this tube 

 proceeds a great number of very fmall capillaments of a 



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