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long fmall ftalk, diverging into a great 

 number of branches, which are found 

 incumbent upon the furface of the earth. 

 The feeds of this fruit are not diftin- 

 • guiftiable from the former, but the te- 

 gument is thin, huiky, and deftitute of 

 that juice with which the other is re- 

 plete. 



The White Ipecacuanha is the root 

 ■ of a plant bearing a ftalk about three 

 feet in height, with large, fmooth point- 

 ed leaves, and yellow blofibms, which 

 are fucceeded by round ^ong-pointed 

 pods, about two inches and a half in 

 kngth, having a fmooth green tegu- 

 ment, inclofing an affemblage of white, 

 foft, (hining, filky filaments, connected 

 at one end to a great number of fmall, 

 thin, and flat feeds, of a dark brown 

 colour. The roots are flender, woody, 

 fmooth> and emetic y but they are never 



ufed 



