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third are armed on the upper margin with 

 crooked fpines. 



Ko-fu, or Tarn ko-fua, is the name which the 

 Chinefe gave to the great trees which grew near 

 the plantations. 



. Valamm is the name of the leaves with which 

 -wiey covered their fruit baikets. 



Paidinia Afiatica was planted round the wall 

 of a little fpot of ground. If this lhrub 

 would grow in our country, it would make the 

 beil hedges about our gardens, &c. for in cafe 

 any one fhould attempt to pafs through it, he 

 would fcarce efcape without marks in his hands 

 and cloaths from the fliarp-pointed hamated 

 thorns of this plant. 



Olom-fw was the name given to a certain 

 great tree, Its leaves were pinnated, fmooth, 

 with oppofite/0/M/. A rofin came out of the 

 tree, very much like the Gum arabick, 



T oh podium vanum. 



Trichomanes Chincnfe. 



Smilax China. This little fhrub grew but 

 fparingly on this ifland. Its root is univerfally 

 Jvjjown among ft us by the name of Radix 



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