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we cannot tell. From one fpecimen fent by Mr. White, 
the latter fliould fcem to be the cafe ; and that the calyx 
fwells and rifes around it nearly to the top, making a pear- 
iliaped fruit;, with the point of the calyptra fticking out 
at its apex; but as this appears only in a fingle flower, and 
none of the others are at all advanced towards ripening feed, 
the flower in queftion may pofUbly be in a morbid ftate, 
owing to the attacks of fome infedl. (See Fig. g.) Future 
obfervations will determine this point. We have been the 
more difFufe in our defcription on account of the fingularity 
of the genus, and the value of the plant. 
On making incifions in the trunk of this tree, large 
quantities of red refinous juice are obtained, fometimes even 
more than fixty gallons from a fingle tree. When this juice 
is dried, it becomes a very powerfully aftringent gum-refin, 
of a red colour, much refembling that known in the fhops 
by the name of Kino, and, for all medical purpofes, fully as 
efficacious. Mr. White adminiftered it to a great number of 
patients in the dyfentery, which prevailed much foon after the 
landing of the convicts, and in no one inftance found it to 
fail. This gum-refin difTolves almoft entirely in fpirit of 
wine, to which it gives a blood red tindure. Water 
H h difTolves 
