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TRAVELS IN 
a new and moft beautiful fpecies of Annona, hav- 
mg clufters of large white fragrant flowers ; and a 
diminutive but elegant Kalmia. The Items are 
very fmall, feeble, and for the mofl part undivided, 
furnifhed with little ovate pointed leaves, and ter- 
minate with a fimple racemi, or fpike of flowers, 
faiver formed, and of a deep rofe red. The whole 
plant is ciliated. It grows in abundance all over 
the moid favannas, but more efpeciatly near ponds 
and bay-fwamps. In fimilar fituations, and com- 
monly a near neighbour to this new Kalmia, is feen 
a very curious fpecies of Annona. It is very dwarf, 
the ftems feldom extending from the earth more 
than a foot or eighteen inches, and are weak and 
almoft decumbent. The leaves are long, extremely 
narrow, almoft lineal. However, fmall as they are, 
they retain the figure common to the fpecies, that 
is, lanceolate, broadeft at the upper end, and atte- 
nuating down to the petiole, which is very fhort > 
their leaves ftand alternately, nearly erect., forming 
two feries, or wings, on the arcuated ftems. The 
lowers, both in fize and colour, refemble thofe of 
the Anti ilobe, and are angle from the axillae of the 
leaves on incurved pendunculi, nodding downwards. 
I never faw the fruit. The dens, or caverns, dug 
in the fand-hills, by the great land-tortoife, called 
here Gopher*", prefent a very angular appearance : 
thefe vaft caves are their caftles and diurnal retreats, 
from whence they iffue forth in the night, in fearch 
of prey. The little mounds, or hillocks of frelh 
earth, thrown up in great numbers in the night, 
have alio a curious appearance. 
In the evening I arrived at a cow-pen, where 
" there was a habitation, and the people received me 
* Teiludo Polyphemus. 
very 
