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Lycium Japonicum. JAPANESE BoxTuorn. 
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Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MonoGyYNIA. 
Generic Chara&cr. 
Cor. tubulofa, fauce claufa filamentorum barba. Bacca 9- 
locularis poly{perma,. 
Specific Chara&er and Synonyms. 
LYCIUM japonicum inerme, foliis ovatis nervofis planis, 
. floribus feffilibus. Thunb. Fl. Fap. p. 93. tab. 17. 
Linn, Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 228. Ait. Kew. 
UV. 1. p. 256. 
LYCIUM fetidum. Linn. Suppl. 150. 
LYCIUM indicum. Retz. Obf. 2. p. 12. m. 21. 
LIGUSTRO affinis, frutex baccifer foetens, Buxi facie — 
Come Gommi, Mantees. Kempf. Amen, Exot, p. 
780. 
BUCHOZIA coprofmoides. L’ Herit. Monograph. 
White flowers reprefented on white paper, make a poor 
figure, efpecially if fmall; our delineation, therefore, as we 
ve too frequently to lament, does not do jutftice to the ori- 
ginal, which forms a neat thick bufh of humble growth, and in 
the autamn produces numerous white flowers, fomewhat like 
thofe of Jafmine, but without fcent, as is the whole plant if . 
not bruifed; but if you ftrongly fqueeze a flower-bud or the 
top of a young fhoot betwixt your thumb and finger, you will 
perceive a fmell highly difgufting, which Kamprer likens to 
that of human ordure: Profeffor Rerzius, who has minutely 
defcribed this plant in his O2/. Bot. denies the exiftence of 
this fmell*, and thus very unjuftly impeaches the veracity of 
the learned and accurate Kamerer: Profeflor Taunsexc 
* Que de odore ftercoris refert Kamrrer falfa effe in Horto Hafnienfi 
obfervavi, et ad fingularem Botanicifque ignotam arborem a Batavis Strunthout 
dictam referri debere monuit amiciffimus THUNBERG. 
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