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The Pigeon, or Angola Pea Tree, 

 Is a branching fhrub, about nine feet 

 in height, covered with fmooth, long, 

 narrow-pointed leaves. Its flowers are 

 of the papilionaceous kind, and are 

 fucceeded by numerous pods of a ruffet 

 colour, ftiaped like thofe of the Englijb 

 Pea, but more flat. Thefe are divided 

 into four or five cells, containing as 

 many flattifli peafe, which are fome- 

 what aftringent, but agreeable and nu- 

 tritious. 



The Arnotta, or Roucou Shrub, is 

 a woody plant, diverging into feveral 

 branches, ufually about nine feet in 

 height, covered with long, narrow, point- 

 ed, green leaves, difpofed on the branches 

 in alternate ord-r. The middle and 

 tranfverfe ribs, to thefe leaves, are of a 

 red colour. The flowers are pentapeta- 

 lous, and of a biueifh yellow colour. The 



petals 



