Holland, and even to Otaheite and New Zealand, to the 
Missionaries. Mr. Boser has made a sketch of the fruit 
which I have attached to this letter. The seeds that I 
planted here, have produced stems which are thirty feet 
high, and they were put into the ground at the same time I 
sent the first seeds to Mr. Barctay.” 
Mr. Barctay’s plants flowered, as well as Mr. Trtratr’s, 
in 1826; and one of them has flourished to such a degree, 
that, by this time, it would more than have filled a large 
stove at Bury Hill, were not the pruning knife constantly 
employed. A plant, therefore, so easy of cultivation, must 
soon become common in climates, that are at all favorable 
to its growth : and, thus will Mr. Tztraie have the honour 
of giving a most useful vegetable to mankind at large, as 
well as a name to a new dant very beautiful plant*. 
* Since the above was printed, and too late to be inserted, M. Boser has 
obligingly sent to me an ample description, which he made, of this plant, from 
the living plant at Zanzibar: this goes to confirm the opinion, of the plant 
constituting a new genus, which he himself has called Joxirrea africana, in 
his own MSS. [I trust he will still further concur with us in dedicating it to 
his patron and friend, Mr. Te.rarr. Its name among the Indians of Zanzi- 
bar is Koumé. 
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notte ean nara 
Tas. 2751. A. f. 1. Raceme of Male Flowers, natural size. 2. A Fruit, 
se, sage | 
Tas. 2752, B. f. 1. Transverse Section of the Fruit. 2. Longitudinal Sec- 
tion of ditto, much reduced. 3. Seed with its vascular envelope. 4. Seed 
deprived of its envelope. 5. Section to shew the different colours of the 
Integument and the Cotyledons, Embryo, and Radicle. 6. Embryo taken 
from the Seed, and with its immediate membranous covering removed.— 
Natural size. : 
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