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tincture, which I do believe would fucceed well. I made 

 fome for myfelf and fervants, a fpoonful of which we ufed 

 to take when we found fymptoms of our difeafe returning, 

 or when it was raging in the place in which we chanced 

 to refide. It is a plain, fimple bitter, without any aromatic 

 or refinous taile. It leaves in your throat and pallet fome- 

 thing of roughnefs refembling ipecacuanha. 



This ihrub was not before known to botanifts. Ibrought 

 the feeds to Europe, and it has grown in every garden, but 

 has produced only flowers, and never came to fruit. Sir 

 Jofeph Banks, prefident to the Royal Society, employed Mr 

 Miller to make a large drawing from this Ihrub as it had 

 grown at Kew. The drawing was as elegant as could be 

 wiflied, and did the original great juftice. To this piece of 

 politenefs Sir Jofeph added another, of calling it after its 

 difcoverer's name, Brucea Antidyfenterica : the prefent fi- 

 gure is from a drawing of my own on the fpot at Has el 

 Eeeh 



The leaf is oblong and pointed, fmooth, and without col- 

 lateral ribs that are vifible. The right fide of the leaf is a 

 deep green, the reverfe very little lighter. The leaves are 

 placed two and two upon the branch, with a fingle one at 

 the end. The flowers come chiefly from the point of the 

 ftalk from each fide of a long branch. The cup is a perian- 

 thium divided into four fegments. The flower has four 

 petals, with a ftrong rib down the center of each. In place 

 of a piftil there is a fmall cup, round which, between the 

 fegments of the perianthium and the petala of the flower, 

 four feeble Hamina arife, with a large Itigma of a crim- 

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