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] In the hermaphrodite flowers, the calix, tamina and ovarium are as I have decribed them in the others.

The fruit is a nut of an almot pherical form, and of a blackih colour, placed upon a receptacle, flehy, red, divided in the middle, and about three times as large as the nut.

The kernel is of an oily nature, and of the ame hape with its hell.

The principal characters of this plant have led me to rank it among the terebinthinaceous tribe, next to the anacardium. I have given it the name of exocarpos cupreiformis.

Fig. 1. A branch of the exocarpos cupreiformis.

Fig. 2. Portion of a branch in flower.

Fig. 3. Germen, with its tyle and tigma.

Fig. 4. Fruit.

Fig. 5. The fruit divided longitudinally, hewing a cavity in the middle of the flehy peduncle.

Fig. 6. The nut.

Fig. 7. Part of the woody ubtance urrounding the nut.

Towards the cloe of the evening we arrived at the banks of a rivulet, where we fixed our place of abode for the night. I oberved at this outhern extremity