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The firft Author I have obferved that Teems to men- 
tion this is Captain Nicholas Dountcn, who (peaking of 
things he obferved by the Cape of Good-hope apud?ur- 
chas, lib. 3. cap. i& § fi p. zj6. fays, ' In divers places 
4 fcatteringly we faw fbme Trees of (mall Stature, (ome- 
< what broad topped, bearing a Fruit in bignefs and pro- 
* portion like a Pine- Apple, but the Husk not fb hard 
c and (pungie, the Seed whereof were devoured by 
' the Birds, the Husks remaining on the Trees, the 
' Leaves whereof were in form of our Houfleek in Eng- 
' land, but not fb thick. 
Mr. Breynius likewiie in his firft Century of Exotic!: 
Plants, pag. 22. mentions a larger (ort of Fmtex /Ethi- 
opians Conifer foliis cneori, falici cemulus, which perhaps 
may be this. 
Dr. Plucknet in the Third Part of his Phytograpbia, 
7^.ioo.has figured this under the name of Leucadendros 
Africana Arlor tot a Argent ea.fericea foliis integru, Atlas 
Tree D. Herman^ which was the top of one of thefe 
Young Trees which came to Mr. Doody. 
2. Conifer a Alypi folio , feminibus pennatis pluribus in 
medio coni conglomeratis, & non inter fyuantmas aliorum 
ccnorum more nafcentibus \ 
The Branch of this Tree (fee the Fig. lit. £) had a 
brown coloured fmooth Bark with a whitilh hard Wood, 
and fmall pith. Thejf.eaves (exprefTed to their natural 
Brgnels lit. F) were round it without any Order, very 
thick fet, having no Foot-ftalks, being about 2 inches 
and \ long, and about \ of an inch broad near the far- 
ther end where broadeft, finooth, hard, and of a brown- 
iih or dirty green colour \ on the top of the Branch 
comes the Fruit, (fee the Fig. lit. 6) which is furround- 
cd by three or four Twigs ( fee the Fig. lit. H, /, 
overtopping it, and with their Leaves almoft hiding it. 
It is about Five Inches long, and is made up of many 
Scales hard and redenclofingone another, the lowermoft 
and 
