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at the top, of a figure like fome of our early pear-trees. The 

 cup is a fmgle-leaved pcrianthium, red, marked very regu- 

 larly before it flowers, but when the flower is out, the edges 

 of the cup are marked with irregular notches, or fegments, 

 in the edge, which by no means correfpond in numbers or 

 diftances to thofe that appeared before the perfection of the 

 ilower. 



The flower itfelf confifls of one leaf of the funnel- fa- 

 shioned kind, fpreads, and, when in its full perfection, folds 

 back at the lips, though it has in fome flowers marks or de- 

 preflions which might appear like fegments, yet they are 

 not fuch, but merely accidental, and the edge of moil 

 of the flowers perfectly even, without any mark of fepara- 

 tion. 



The piftil confifls of a very feeble thread ; in the top it 

 is bifected, or divided, into two ; its apex is covered with a 

 fmall portion of yellow dufl. There are two, and feme- 

 times three, of thefe divifions. The fruit is fully formed in 

 the cup while the flower remains clofed, and like a kind of 

 tuft, which falls off, and the piftil ftill remains on the point 

 of the fruit ; is at firfl foft, then hardens like a nut, and is 

 covered with a thin, green hufk. It then dries, hardens in- 

 to a fliell, and withers. The leaf is of a dark green, with- 

 out varnifh, with an obtufe point ; the ribs few but ftrong, 

 marked both within and without. The outfide is a green- 

 ifh yellow, without varnifh alfo. 



I do not know that any part of this tree is of the fmall- 

 efl life in civil life, though its figure and parts feem to be 



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