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crifped or plicated : thefe large, white flowers 
hand Tingle andfefTilein the bofom of the leaves, 
and being near together towards the extremities 
of the twigs, and ufually many expanded at the 
fame time, make a gay appearance : the fruit is 
a large, round, dry, woody apple or pericarp, 
opening at each end oppoAtely by five alternate 
Allures, containing ten cells, each replete 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 fa- 
ther (John Bartram) on a botanical excurAon ; 
but, it being then late in the autumn, we could 
form no opinion to what clafs or tribe it be- 
longed. 
We never faw it grow in any other place, nor 
have I ever fince Teen it growing wild, in all my 
travels, from Pennfylvania to Point Coupe, on 
the banks of the Miffiffipi, which muft be al- 
lowed a very Angular and unaccountable circum- 
ftance ; at this place there are two or three acres 
of ground where it grows plentifully. 
The other new, Angular 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 Eaft Florida, in the neigh- 
bourhood of the fea-coaft. 
* I gave it the name of Bignonia bra&eate, extempore. 
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