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The piftil is a yellow tube, divided at the top into five 

 figments, and fixed at the bottom in what appears to be the 

 rudiment of a fruit ; but I never faw this in any ftate of 

 perfection, and the Abymnians fay it never produces any- 

 thing but a fmall, round, black feed, Concerning which I 

 can fay no further. The perianthium confifts of five fliarp- 

 pointed fegments, which inciofe the flower when not arri- 

 ved to maturity, in a conical pod of a light-green colour, 

 which colour it likewife keeps in its more advanced ftate 

 when fpread. I ^do not know any other name it has but 

 that of WalkuiFa, nor do I know the fignification of that 

 name in any language. 



"WOOGTNOOS, or BRUCEA ANTIDYSENTERICA, 



HPHIS fhrub, the branch of which is before us, is a pro- 

 A duction of the greateft part of Abyfiinia, efpecially 

 the fides of the valleys in the low country, or Kolla. It is 

 indeed on the north fide of Debra Tzai, where you firfl de- 

 fcend into the Kolla. This drawing was made at Hor-Ca- 



L 2 camoot, 



