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plantations fituated on the fides.of thefe 

 risers, where a few of thefe trees have 

 been found, they have been left grow- 

 ing, and the foil adjacent to them has 

 been left uncultivated. 



The Caruna, as it is termed by the 

 Indians, is the poifon nut of a fmall tree, 

 or fhrub, covered with a thin brown 

 bark, and having fmall, oval, light green 

 leaves. From the extremities of the 

 branches arife feveral reddifh coloured 

 blofibms, which are afterwards fucceed- 

 ed by the nuts. Thefe nuts, deprived 

 of their external huflcy teguments, ap- 

 pear in form of the American Ana- 

 cardium, being about ten lines in 

 length, five in diameter in the mid- 

 dle, and four near each end, where 

 they bend fomewhat inwards. Each 

 nut has a hard brown fhell, confiding 

 of four pieces, which are joined la- 

 terally and longitudinally, but the ctr- 

 H cular 



