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CaLycanTuus Pracox. Japan ALL-Spice. 
FEE EAR RE IEAER IE Se ee decease dee 
Clafs and Order. 
IcosanpRIA PoLycyYNIA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Ca/. 1-phyllus, urceolatus, fquarrofus: foliolis coloratis. Cor. 
calycina. S¢y/¢ plurimi, ftigmati glandulofo. Sem. plurima, 
caudata, intra calycem fucculentum. 
_ Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. . 
CALYCANTHUS precox. petalis interioribus minutis. Lim. 
er 220. tab, x. 3 Bis 
OBAI /. Robai. Jafminum flore pleno fuavi feetido, fru€tu 
* turbinato, femine phafcoli. Kempf. Amen. 
exot. p. 878. 
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~The learned and inftru@ive Kamprer in his Amen, Exot. — 
_ that vaft fund of moft ufeful information, gives a figure of this) 
plant, in which it is reprefented both with flowers and feed-- _ 
veffels, accompanied with a defcription and fhort account of - 
it; from which we learn that it is cultivated in Japan as an — 
_ ornamental plant, that the flowers are produced in February, 
before the leaves, that they have the fcent of the violet, but 
become unpleafant on being long fmelt to. : 
Hearing that Lord Coventry was the firft who poffeffed 
this plant in England, I took the liberty of writing to his Lord- 
dhip in January 1799, to requeft fome information on this 
point, as well as fome others relative to its culture, &c. On 
the 13th of the fame month, his Lordfhip had the goodnefs 
to fend me a beautiful fpecimen of the plant in bloom, 2 
feedling plant one year old, together with a feed-veffel of the 
year 1798, and fome feeds; in the Earl’s letter is the follow- 
ing paffage:—* the beauty of the Calycanthus precox at this 
* moment furpaffes all defcription, it is covered with bloffoms 
_ Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 718, Ait. Kew. v.02. p. 
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“ from top to bottom, and the fragrance of it may be per- 
_ “ ceived at the diftance of fifty yards from the conicrysiey : 
