d OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



peafe, each of which is furrounded with a 

 white tallow-like fkin. When the fruit is ripe, 

 the fhell opens into three parts. For my part, 

 I have never feen the fruit of the Croton, 

 and therefore cannot be fure whether it is the 

 fame tree of which the Lappt-yacks candles are 

 faid to be made, as I have been told. 



Chryfanthe?mtm Indicum grew here and there, 

 both on the mountains and on the walls of 

 Canton, and likewife before the rooms of the 

 Chinefe in flower-pots. The flowers not only 

 ferve as an ornament, but are ufed inftead of 

 tea. The Chinefe call it Kock-fa. 



Lattfa is the Chinefe name of a little tree 

 which here grew on a high field, and looked 

 like the Yew-tree ; but the leaves were orna- 

 mented on the inferior fide with white itripes, 

 running length-ways as in Pi?ius balfamea, or 

 ihtPhalarispicJa, known among us. It feem- 

 ed to be Taxus nucifera Fi, vulgo Kajo. Kcsmph. 

 Amccn. 814. 



Briza ' elegans ? fpicis oblongis, valvulis cari- 

 natis, an exceeding fine grafs, which grew near 

 the highcft plantations. 



Daphne Indica. The calyx is wanting : the 



tor alia is quadrifid : the laciv.ia are all of an 



7 equal 



