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ang to the height of twenty feet or more^ fending 

 out many fliortifli branches, garniflied with entire, 

 oblong, pointed leaves; the flowers are produced 

 upon the fmall branches, making but little appear- 

 ance, and are fucceeded by large, globular or oblong 

 fruit, which when fully ripe has a fweet agreeable 

 tafte. A full grown tree will often yield two bufhels 

 or more of fruit, which upon diftillation will afford 

 as many gallons of Spirits, allowed to be equal in 

 tafte and flavour to Weft India Rum. Our country- 

 men have not enough attended to this, but in fome 

 places they brew of them a very g6od Beer. There 

 appears to be varieties of this, fome with early ripe 

 large fruit, others with fmaller and late ripe. 



D I R C A. 



LEATHER WOOD. 

 Clafs 8. Order i. Odlandria Monogynia. 



TT HE Empalement is wanting. 



^ The Corolla is one petal'd and clubbed. The tube is more 

 bellied above. The border none, the margin unequal. 



The Filaments are eight, capillary, inferted in the middle of 

 the tube, and longer than the corolla. The Anthem are 

 routidilli and ereft. 



The Gemen is ovate, with an oblique top. The Style is thread- 

 form, longer than the ftamiiia and Curved at the top. The 

 Stigma is fimple. 



The Seed'Veffel is a berry of one cell. 



The Seed is one. 



"There is but one Species of this (ienuSy viz. 



DiRCA paiuftris. Virginian Marjh Leather'- 

 wood. 



This is a low fhrub, growing in moift fliady places, 

 feldom rifing more than three or four feet high, 



F fprcading 



