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WALKUFFA, 



'HIS tree grows in the Kolla, or hottefl part of Abyfn- 

 nia. It does not flower immediately after the rains, as 

 molt trees in Abyffinia do, that is, between the beginning 

 of September and the Epiphany, when the latter rains in 

 "November do ftill fall in violent periodical mowers, but it 

 is after the Epiphany, towards the middle of January, that 

 it firft appears, covered with bloiToms. However beautiful, 

 it has no fmell, and is accounted deftructive to the bees, for 

 which reafon it is rooted out and deftroyed in thofe coun- 

 tries that pay their revenue in honey. It refembles the 

 Kentiih .cherry-tree, in appearance, efpecially if that tree 

 has but a moderate, not overfpreading top. The wood im- 

 mediately below its bark is white, but under that a brown- 

 i(h yeiiow, fomething like cedar ; the old trees that I have 

 feen turn darker, and are not unlike to the wood of the la- 

 burnum, or peafe-cod tree. The natives fay it does not fwim 

 in water. This however I can contradict upon experiment. 

 The wood, indeed, is heavy, but itill it fwims. 



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