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n. - An aromatic tree having large white or yellow or pink flowers.

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  • The slope of this rock is barren, and affords only nourishment for a few plants of clusia with large white flowers.
  • Wherever there are deep declivities, or masses of rocks half covered with mould, the clusia or cupey, with great nymphaea flowers, displays its beautiful verdure.
  • Often on the summit of these lonely hills may be seen a fig-tree or a clusia with fleshy leaves, which has fixed its roots in the rock, and towers over the landscape.
  • Malpighia reticulata.) the clusia, the amyris, and the mimosa with fragrant flowers.
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