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Nyctanilics or Jasniinuni, but as (see the drawing and dissection of 

 Ellis) it is manifest that the single ovary is inany-seeded, it is 

 impossible for it to haA"e any affinity with the Jasmines. Still less, 

 on account of the 3 pistils, is there any affinity with Nerium, 

 especially as I have never read that the younger shoots, \Ahen cut, 

 shed latex. However, I shall be looking for your opinion on 

 these points as soon as possible. 



I have for a long time heard much of your industry in 

 collecting and cultivating very rare plants, and your unwearied 

 study of the same, so that nothing will give me greater pleasure 

 than to honour for your sake this plant which the Botanic World 

 owes to you. 



While you are collecting rare plants, please do not forget me, 

 situated here outside the favoured regions of plant-life, whose 

 constant desire it will be to do you honour. 



Given at TJpsala, 1758, 29 September. 



Viro amplissimo 



D. D. DaTID VAX EOTEN, 



Professori Botanices celeberrimo 

 s. pi. d. 



Carl v. Lk^xe. 



Hodie accepi a te generosissime communicata et data semina, 

 inter quae varia erant quae ego non habeo iu Horto. 



jNIissum etiam erat Folium, e Mexico (quod miror) et est, nisi 

 valde fallor, Arhor nucifeni foho adiautino, Kaempf. amoen. 811 

 &. 812, generis etiamnum plane incogniti ; utinam orbi Botanico 

 hujus dare posses characterem desideratissimum. 



Pro utrinque summas quas possum refero gratias. 



Audivi quod uxor amplissimi Doctoris Professoris Adriaui van 

 Eoyen nuper sit mortua quod maxime doleo ; quomodo fert banc 

 calamitatem mens optimus benefactor? Sed et audivi hunc meum 

 patronum etiam morbo iaborare, quod mihi metum incutit non 

 levem. Si aliquando referibas quaeso de Patrui tui statu me 

 moneas, in cujus aere sum et ero quamdiu vixero. 



Anne umquam vidistin Loasam Jacq. obs. 3. f. 38, quae Ortiga 

 chilensis urens Fewell. pens. f. 43"^, fuit ante duos aunos in Hortis 

 Botanicis Wiennae, Parisiis, etc., unde et specimen recentissimum 

 habui. Sed quaesivi omnes Botanicos ut semina obtinerem nee in 

 mihi notis locis exstat amplius. Dolerem maxime si Botanici 

 concessissent tarn pulchram et singularem plantaui in Europa perire, 

 quae nunquam antea Europas visa fuit. Si habeas, submisse precor 

 des mihi aliquot semina. 



Vale, et vive felix in rei herbariae augmeutum et decus. 



Dabam Upsaliae, 1769 die 18 Aprilis. 



