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tliefe large, white flowers ftand fingle and feffile in 
the bofom of the leaves, and being near together to- 
wards the extremities of the twigs, and ufually 
many expanded at the fame time, make a gay ap- 
pearance : the ftuit is a large, round, dry, woody 
apple or pericarp, opening at each end oppofitely by 
five alternate Mures; containing ten cells, each re- 
plete with dry woody cuneiform feed. This very 
curious tree was firfl taken notice of about ten or 
twelve years ago, at this place, when I attended my 
father (John Bar tram) on a botanical excurfion ; 
but, it being then late in the autumn, we could 
form no opinion to what clafs or tribe it belonged. 
We never faw it grow in any other place, nor 
have I ever fince feen it growing wild, in all my 
travels, from Pennfylvania to Point Coupe, on the 
banks of the MilTiffippi, which muft be allowed a 
very fingular and unaccountable circumftance ; at 
this place there are two or three acres of ground 
where it grows plentifully* 
The other new, fingular and beautiful fhrub*, 
now here in full bloom, I never faw grow but at 
two other places in all my travels, and there very 
fparingly, except in Earl Florida, in the neighbour- 
hood of the fea-coaft. 
* I gave it the name of Bignonia bra&eate, extempore. 
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