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pmk colour, at the end of each of which hangs a purple 

 ftigma. At the top of this piftil is a large bunch of {till 

 liner fibres, or capillaments, with ftigmata likewife, and at 

 the end the piftil' is rounded as if forming a fruit ; without 

 a very diftinct. drawing, it would be difficult to make a de- 

 scription that mould be intelligible. 



Nothing can be more beautiful, or more compounded, 

 than the formation of this flower, though it has no odour ; 

 the head is compofed of about thirty of thefe fmall branch- 

 es now defcribed, which make a very beautiful mafs, and 

 is of a pink colour of different fhades. At fun-fet, the 

 leaves on each fide of the branch fhut face to face like the 

 fenlitive tribe. I never faw anv feed or fruit that it bore, 

 nor any thing like the rudiments of feed, unlefs it be that 

 very fmall rotundity that appears at the end of the piftil, 

 which feem to bear no proportion to fo large a tree. 



ERGETT 



