{ 4* ) 



mg a tough ligneous fibre running 

 longitudinally through the root. 



The Female Poppau is of the Pru* 

 niferous tribe. Its trunk is hollow, and 

 ufhally grows to about fifteen feet in 

 height, and fix or eight inches in di- 

 ameter j being wholly deftitute of 

 branches. It is covered with bark of 

 a light brown colour, variegated by the 

 veftigia of the fallen off ftamina of the 

 leaves. The leaves on one tree are 

 ufuaily about fifteen in number, and 

 near four feet in circumference, di- 

 vided into feven or eight fections, which 

 are again irregularly fubdivided into 

 others, which terminate in obtufe 

 points. Thefe leaves are fupported by 

 as many hollow herbaceous foot-ftalks, 

 near two feet in length, which arife in 

 a clufcer from the fumrnit of the trunk, 

 from whence the pedxles to the flowers 



arife. 



