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dron arboreum, and the white-flowered one, sup- 

 posed a variety. I think a specific difference may be 

 founded on the back of the leaf; but of this you 

 must judge. Both are growing in England, from 

 your seeds. 



JDaph?ie Gardneri, Wall., I have from Dr. Hamil- 

 ton, by the name of Dais Bamutis. I know not 

 why he made it a Dais, unless it be decandrous, 

 which is of no consequence. I retain your name 

 of course. May not this be (ob capitulum) Daphne 

 indica of Loureiro ? 



Daphne cannabina of Loureiro is probably right, 

 for I pay little regard to the opposite leaves he at- 

 tributes to it. I take under this name your plant 

 with glaucous leaves, yellowish beneath. This I think 

 is Hamilton's D.papyrifera in his MSS., though the 

 leaves of his flowering specimens are less glaucous. 

 They are glaucous, like yours, in his fruit-bearing 

 specimens. But I presume to think you have here- 

 with mixed two other species. One is D. Botlua of 

 Hamilton, (I would call it D.saligna if there be none 

 already), whose leaves are much narrower, not glau- 

 cous ; flowers larger, without the involucral leaves of 

 the camiabina. The branches are long and vimineous. 

 The other is a smaller, more densely branched plant, 

 with smaller leaves, not glaucous, of a broader 

 figure ; flowers smaller, with fringed deciduous in- 

 volucral leaves. 



Ormosia dasycarpa, Jackson Tr. L. Soc. v. 10, 

 right — a native of the West Indies. I hope it will 

 afford you its beautiful seeds in due time. I thank 

 you much for the flowers, as my specimen is in fruit. 



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