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crifped or plicated : thefe large white flowers (land 
Angle and feflile in the boforn of the leaves, and be- 
ing near together towards the extremities of the 
twigs, and ufualiy many expanded at the fame time, 
make a gay appearance : the fruit is a large, round, 
dry, woody apple dr pericarp, opening at each end 
oppofitelv by five alternate Allures, containing ten 
cells, each replete with dry woody cuneiform feed. 
This very curious tree was firft taken notice of about 
ten or twelve years ago, at this place, when I attend- 
ed my father (John Bartram) on a botanical excur- 
fion ; 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 tra- 
vels, from Pennfylvania to Point Coupe, on the 
banks of the Miffiffippi, which rnuft be allowed a 
very Angular and unaccountable circumftance ; 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 neighbour- 
hood of the fea-coaft. 
* I gave it tbe-name of Btgnouia bra&eate, extempore 
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