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FAREK, or BAUHINIA ACUMINATA. 



THIS beautiful Ihrub was found on the banks of a 

 brook, which, falling from the weft fide of the 

 mountain of Geefh down the fouth face of the precipice 

 where the village is fituated, is the firfl water that runs 

 fouthward into the lake Gooderoo, in the plain of Aflba. 

 It is the water we employed for common ufes, not daring 

 to touch that of the Nile, unlefs for drinking and drefling 

 our food ; it grew about 20 yards from this water, on the 

 fide of the cliff, not 400 yards from the fountain of the 

 Nile itfelf. The name it bears here is Farek, which is, I 

 fuppofe, given it from the diviilon of the leaf. 



This fhrub is compofed of feveral feeble branches : to 

 what height it grows I do not know, having never feen it 

 before, nor were there many others where I found it. The 

 longeil branch of this was not four feet high. It grew on 

 good black mold, but of no great depth, having at the bot- 

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