Identifier: travelstodiscov05bruc (find matches)
Title: Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes
Year: 1790 (1790s)
Authors: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
Subjects: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Natural history Explorers
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
a thriving Hate, or whether it was the nature of^e tree, I know not, but it was thick and Hunted, and hadbut few branches; it was not above nine feet high, though itwas three feet in diameter. The leaves and flower, however,feemed to be in great vigor and I have here deligned themall of their natural iize as they flood. The leaves are long, and broader as the - approach the end.The point is obtufe ; they arc of a dead green not unlike thewillow, and placed alternately one above the o ler onthe ftalk. The calix is cornpofed of many broad fcaleslying one above the other, which operates by the pief-fure upon one another, and keeps the calix fhut beforethe flower arrives at perfeclion. The flower is mono-petalous, or made of one leaf; it is divided ac the topinto four fegments, where ihefe end it is covered with atuft of down, refembling hair, and this is the cafe at the topalfo. When the flower is young and unripe, Tie are laidregularly fo as to inclofe one another in a circle. As y grow
Text Appearing After Image:
////////// 7,/i,//i /////////■,/ /),; rifijtiq. // fi. A\/>mwi & t.>.

Note About Images