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GUILANDINA. 
The BONDUC, or NICKAR TREE. 
Clafs io. Order i. Decandria Monogynia. 
nPHE Empalement is one leaved, bell-fhape : the border five 
parted, equal, and fpreading. 
The Corolla confifts of five petals, lanced, concave, fquat, equal, 
fomewhat larger than the calyx and inferted in its chaps. 
The Filaments are ten, awl-fhaped, ere&, inferted in, and ihort- 
er than the calyx : the alternate lefs. The Antherce are ob- 
tufe and incumbent. 
The Germen is oblong. The Style is thread-form and the length 
of the ftamina. The Stigma is fimple. 
'I'he Seed-vejjel is a legumen or pod, which is rhomboid, con- 
vex on the upper future, bellied-comprefied, of one cell, 
diftinft, with tranfverfe partitions. 
The Seeds are bony, globofe-compreflfed, and folitary between 
the partitions. 
Obf. A fpecies of this genus is dioecious. 
The Species with us , 
Guilandina dioica. Canadian dioiceous 
Bonduc y or Nickar Tre € . 
This tree is faid to rife, with an ere& item, to the 
height of thirty feet or more, dividing into many 
branches, covered with abluifh afh-coloured, fmooth 
bark, garnifhed with large winged leaves, the lobes 
of which are ranged alternately, and are oval fhap- 
od, very fmooth and entire. I have lately received 
feveral feeds from Kentucky, fuppofed to be of this 
tree, where it is faid to grow plenty, and is called 
the Coffee or Mahogany tree. 
HALESIA* 
