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whofe point is inclined backward towards the root.- Its pods 

 are covered with a prickly kind of hair,which,when touched,, . 

 flick in your ringers and give very uneafy fenfations. The 

 pods aie divided into thirteen divifions, in each of which* 

 are three round feeds, hard and faming, of a dufky brown- 

 ifli colour. The flower has fcarcely any fmell, nor do I 

 know that it is of any utility whatever. Both thefe beau- 

 tiful (hrubs were found upon the banks of the river Arno, 

 between Emfras and the lake Tzana. The foil is black . 

 mould, with a great mixture or competition of rotten pu- 

 trified leaves, thinly covering the rock in, the temperate 

 part of Abyflinia; What I have to obferve of both thefe: 

 mrubs is, that they fhut their leaves upon the violent rains - 

 of winter, and are never fully expanded till the fun and; i 

 fair feafon, again return. 



E N S E T E. 



TKE Enfete is an herbacious plant. It is faid to be a na- 

 tive of Narea, and to grow in the great fwamps and 

 marines in that country, formed by many rivers riling there, 

 2 which 



