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edges, The trunk and its branches, 

 thus cloathed in their leaves, by which 

 they are intirely obfcured, appear in 

 the form of a regular green cone, fix 

 feet in height, and near the earth about 

 nine in circumference. Numerous 

 flowers, of a beautiful white colour, 

 adhere both to the trunk and its 

 branches. They confifl: of five round 

 pointed petals, which furround feveral 

 fhort ftaminas, fupporting numerous 

 apices ; from within thefe arifes the 

 piftil, which contains the embryo of 

 the fucceeding berry. This confifts of 

 two kernels, which, by the junction of 

 their flat fides, form a round oval berry, 

 Thefe kernels are inclofed in a hulk, 

 which changes from a green to a bright 

 crimfon colour, when the kernels are 

 arrived to maturity. Of thefe there 

 are annually two crops, and in this 

 Colony, each of thefe crops, from a 



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