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credibility of the fad:, on the ftrength 

 of its improbability ; though I conjec- 

 ture, from feveral circumftances in the 

 manner in which it is mentioned by 

 U//oa, that he has related it rather 

 from information, than his own obfer- 

 vation. 



Currawattie, as it is termed by the 

 India?is 9 is the fruit of a large plant 

 found ufually in valleys, at the bottom 

 of the fandy hills in the interior part of 

 the country. This plant confifts of a 

 clufter of reddifh herbaceous ftalks, 

 growing four or five feet in length, and 

 fupporting large, fmooth, thick leaves, 

 of a long oval form, being near eight 

 inches in length. In the center of 

 thefe leaves is found an erecfr, tough, 

 fibrous ftem, about two feet in height, 

 anfing immediately from the root: round 

 this ftem appear a clufter of large fiefh- 

 coloured tetrapetalous flowers, connect- 

 ed 



