i 4 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



The 3d of November. 



We dined to-day with the merchant Tantin- 

 qua t at whofe houfe tea was packing up for 

 us. Here again the high value which the Chi- 

 nefe fet upon flowers planted for ornament was 

 obfervable. Before the dining-room was a fine 

 garden, laid out with ftones, and in it was : 



Sguaifa, a tree about fix yards high, with 

 fmall, white, fweet-fcented flowers, whereof 

 three or four were in one Involucrnm. The 

 tree belongs to the Tetrandria clafs. 



Laan-fa, a tree with yellow, corymbofc 

 flowers, and pinnated leaves. 



Drac<zna ferrea, the iron-tree b , which in 

 the Chinefe language is called Tat-Jio, was 

 higher than the preceding ; and for this reafon 

 I could not reach the flowers, which were at 

 the top in bunches. The branches were fup- 



b {Dracana ferrea, Linn. Syjl. Nat. Ed. 12. p. 246.) 

 D. S. remarks that it is called Jfparagus terminalis, in Spe- 

 cies Plantar, and Terminalis alba by Rumph. Am. vol. iv. 

 p. 79. tab. 34, but Linnaus, in his new fyftem, page afore- 

 mentioned, calls that fpecies of Afparagus, Dracaena termina- 

 lis. F. 



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