£4 APPENDIX 



W A N Z E Y. 



THIS tree is very common throughout all Abyffinia. f 

 do not know the reafon, but all the towns are full of 

 them ; every houfe in Gondar has two or three planted 

 round it, fo that, when viewed firft from the heights, it 

 appears like a wood, efpecially all the feafon of the rains ; 

 but very exactly on the firlt of September, for three years 

 together, in a night's time, it was covered with a multitude 

 of white flowers. Gondar, and all the towns about, then 

 appeared as covered with white linen, or with new-fallen 

 fnow. This tree bloflbms the firft day the rains ceafe. It 

 grows to a conflderable magnitude, is from 18 to 20 feet 

 high. The trunk is generally about 3 feet and a half from 

 the ground; it then divides into four or five thick branches, 

 which have at leaf! 6o° inclination to the horizon, and not 

 more. Thefe large branches are generally bare, for half 

 way up the bark is rough and furrowed. They then put 

 sOut a number of fmaller branches, are circular and fattifh, 



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