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roots. Thefe leaves are four feet in 

 length, feven or eight inches in width 

 near the middle, where they are wider 

 than at or near the root ; they are 

 pointed at the end, and are about half 

 an inch thick, covered with a fmooth 

 tegument of a beautiful green colour; 

 their internal fubftance is white, fpungy, 

 and faponaceous. The branches arife 

 alternately, about ten feet below the 

 fummit of the trunk ; they are fhort 

 and numerous, each fuftaining a very 

 large eompadt clufter of yellow flowers ; 

 each of thefe flowers is fupported by 

 fhort cylindrical light green pedicles, 

 and confift of fix pointed petals, fur- 

 founding an equal number of long fia- 

 mkia, with large apices, which are 

 covered with yellow farinae. From the 

 centre arifes the piftil. As the flowers 

 fall off, their pedicles fhoot into broad 

 pointed leaves, clofely connected in 



form 



