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a new and moft beautiful fpecies of Annona, hav- 
ing clufters of large white fragrant flowers , and a 
diminutive but elegant Kalmia. The items are 
very fmall, feeble, and for the molt part undivided, 
furnifhed with little ovate pointed leaves, and ter- 
minate with a Ample racemi, or fpike of flowers, 
falver formed, and of a deep rofe red. The whole 
plant is ciliated, it grows in abundance all over 
the moift favannas, but more efpecially near ponds 
and bay-fwamps. In fimilar fltuations, and com- 
monly a near neighbour to this new Kalmia, is feen 
a very curious fpecies of Annona. It is very dwarf, 
the Items feldom extending from the ejuth 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 Ihort ; 
their leaves Hand alternately, nearly eredt, forming 
two feries, -or wings, on the arcuated Hems. The 
flowers, bodi in flze and colour, referable thofe of 
the An trilobe, and are Angle from the axillae of 
the leaves on incurved peduncuii, nodding down- 
wards. I never faw the fruit. The dens, or ca- 
verns, dug in the land-hills, by the great land tor- 
toife, called here Gopher *, prefcnt a very Angular 
appearance : thefe vaft caves are their caftjes and 
diurnal retreats, from whence they ifllie forth in 
the night, in fearch of prey. The little mounds, 
or bilk cks of frefh earth, thrown up in great num- 
bers in the night, have alfo a curious appearance. 
In the evening I arrived at a cow- per v T :. 
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