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XXVI. An Account of feveral Plants prefented to the Linnean Society, at 
different Times, by Mr. John Fairbairn dnd Mr. Thomas Hoy, Fellows 
of the Linnean Society. By the Prefident. : 
mie Lud Mol Es 
UNE MOST U S fpeciofus. 
roue foliis fubtus fericeo-villofis. 
C. arabicus. Facgu. Ic. Rar. voli. t. Y. Collect, vol. w 
243. 
Bankíea fpeciofa. Konig. Monandr. 75. 
Tsjana-kua. Reed. Mal. vol. xi. 159 1, 82 
Herba ípiralis hiríuta. - — Amb. vol, vi. 143 À 64, 
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Native of the Eaft Indies. 
. Flowered in Sion Gardens in 1790. Mr. Hoy. 4 
This fine plant has been very improperly confounded with the 
Coftus arabicus of Linnæus. The latter is the fpecies defcribed in 
his Hortus Cliffortianus, of which a drawing by Ehret is in the 
library of Sir Jofeph Banks, but its fynonyms are even in that 
work much confufed. It is probable there may be many fpecies 
comprehended under thofe fynonyms, nor is our prefent knowledge 
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