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from the root to the fummit, and en- 

 tirely deftitute of branches, until it is 

 near one hundred feet from the earth, 

 at which place the bark changes from 

 a light grey to a deep green colour. 

 Near the top arife numerous green 

 branches, about twenty feet in length, 

 diverging on all lides, and extending 

 in an horizontal direction. To thefe, 

 on two bppofite lides, are compactly 

 difpofed numerous pennated leaves, 

 about two feet and an half in length, 

 and between two and three inches in 

 width, and terminating in a point. 

 Thefe leaves diminifh in length the 

 nearer they are difpofed to the ends of 

 the branches. The flower, if it may 

 be fo called, arifes in that parr of the 

 trunk where the afh-coloured bark joins 

 the green, and at its firft appearance 

 is a green hufky fpatha, twenty inches 

 in length, and four in breadth; its in- 



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