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Ex hujus plants ligno paratur C^r^CHtr, vulgo Terra Japonlca, 



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SrNONTMJ. Mimoik Cate; ipmls ^duabiis ftipulanbus, fbliis 

 blpinaatis i5-3p.jiigis, foliolis ,40 jiigis, fpicis.elongatis axilianbus. 

 NidiQ Murray App. Med. vol, ii. p, 415. ■ Coir a YclCaira in Pro^ 



vincia Bahar dkitur. S^eKerrs " Defcription of the Plant from 

 which the i ^rr^ Japonica. is extraded- M?^. O^/T ^ Liquir, voh 

 1;. j!>. 151. SuppI, Plant, p. 439. 



Clafs Polygamia. Ord, Monoecia. Lin, Gen. Plant. 1 1 c 



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EJf. Gen. Ch, Eermjph, Cal, 5--dentatiis. Con 5-fida. Stara, ${. 



. plura. Pijl, I Legiimen. _ 



ikT^s-c. Cal, 5-dentatus. Cor, 5-fida. . Stam, 5, ,10, plura. 



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Sp, Ch, M. fpinis ilipularibus, foliis bipinnatis multijugis : glandulls 



partialium fmgulis, fpicis axillaribus geminis f. ternis pedun 

 culatis. Syift, Veg, ed, 14. 



CCORDING to Mr, Kerr, this fmall tree grows to 



twelve feet in height, and to one foot in diameter, 

 d^with a thick rough brown bark, and towards the top 



divides into many clofe branches : the leaves are bipinnated, or doubly 

 winged, and are placed alternately upon the younger branches: the 



partial pinnas are nearly two inches long, and are commonly from 

 fifteen to thirty pair, having fmall glands inferted between the 



pmns: each wing is ufually furnifhed vv^ith about forty pair of 



pinnule or linear lobes, befet with ihort hairs : the fpines are fhort, 

 recurved, and placed in pairs at the bafes of each leaf: the flowers 

 are hermaphrodite and male, and ftand in clofe fpikes, which arife 

 from the axillae of the leaves, and are four or five inches long: the 

 calyx is tubular, hairy, and divides at the limb into five oval p'ointed 

 ments : the corolla is monopetalous, whitiih, and of the fame form 



the calyx, but twice its length : the filame 



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