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2 . According to Authors. 
Ligujlrum Diofcoridis. Matthiol. 117. 
Ligujlrum eyEgyptiacum latifolium ; item an - 
guftifolium . C. Bauh. Pin. 476. 
Ligujlrum yEgypt him. joh.Bauh. T. 1. p. 532. 
Liguftrum or tent ale. Park. 1447. RaiiHift. *603. 
Rhamnus Malabar icus 9 f ruff u racemoj'o caliculato, 
RaiiHift. 1573. 
Its Description. 
The Cyprus grows generally as a Shrub of ten or 
fifteen Feet in Height, and has very much the Ap- 
pearance of Privet. 
Its Trunk grows fometimes as thick as a Mans 
Thigh, is fometimes ftreight and fometimes crooked, 
and produces a great Number of Branches irregularly. 
Its outward Bark is afh-colour'd, and much furrow'd, 
and detaches itfelf from the Trunk of the Tree in long 
Scales or Pieces, by the Heat and Drynefs of the 
Climate, as in the Terfian Gulf. Its inward Bark 
is reddifh without, and whitifh within. That of the 
Branches is fmooth and red, like that of the Hazel- 
tree, and green within. Its young Branches are 
ftreight, flexible, and moderately long. The Wood 
of the Trunk is hard and whitifh. 
Its Leaves are difpofed in different Orders upon 
the fame Twig. Sometimes they are placed oppo- 
fite in Pairs along the fmall Branches, and this mod 
generally crofs-wife; fometimes by three and three ; 
but then the Leaves are lefs, and this Difpofition 
generally takes place in the larger Branches i fome- 
times they are alternate, but rarely, and then the 
Leaves are largeft. The leaft Branches are moft 
charged with Leaves, the larger ones leaft. All 
thefe 
