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colour. The flowers are yellow, and 

 fucceeded by fmall red berries. The 

 bark of the tree is rough, moderately 

 fulcated, near two lines in thicknefs, 

 of a brown colour, and having a fra- 

 grant, aromatic, and pungent tafte. 



The Mawna Tree grows about fifty 

 feet in height, and its trunk foon di- 

 vides into many branches ; it is covered 

 with a thin uneven bark, of a light 

 brown colour. It produces leaves of an 

 oval form, with numerous c rim fori pen- 

 tapetalous flowers, which are fucceeded 

 by nuts, which, when diverted of their 

 v hufky tegument, exactly refemble, in 

 form and appearance, the Oriental Nut- 

 meg ; but they do not afford, either in 

 tafte or fmell, the leaft aromatic fra- 

 grance. When incifions are made in 

 the trunk of this tree, there exudes a 

 yellowiih gum, dhToluble in an aqueous 

 menftruum, and which is an ingredient 



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