s-2 APPENDIX. 





G A G U E D I. 



HPHE Gaguedi is a native of Lamalmon ; whether it was 

 : not in a thriving Hate, or whether it was the nature of 

 ^e tree, I know not, but it was thick and Hunted, and had 

 but few branches ; it was not above nine feet high, though it 

 was three feet in diameter. The leaves and flower, however, 

 feemed to be in great vigor and I have here deligned them 

 all of their natural iize as they flood. 



The leaves are long, and broader as the - approach the end. 

 The point is obtufe ; they arc of a dead green not unlike the 

 willow, and placed alternately one above the o ler on 

 the ftalk. The calix is cornpofed of many broad fcales 

 lying one above the other, which operates by the pief- 

 fure upon one another, and keeps the calix fhut before 

 the flower arrives at perfeclion. The flower is mono- 

 petalous, or made of one leaf; it is divided ac the top 

 into four fegments, where ihefe end it is covered with a 

 tuft of down, refembling hair, and this is the cafe at the top 

 alfo. When the flower is young and unripe, Tie are laid 

 regularly fo as to inclofe one another in a circle. As y 



grow 



