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' geverend Mr John of Tranquebar has supplied eugenia jam- 
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bos and artocarpus incisa; Mr Steuart at Changama, santa- 
dum album; Mr Mein at Trichinopoly, some young plants 
of a tree; the bark of which is a very fine kind of cork, as 
well as plants of a tree said to producea kind of benzoin, and 
santalum album ; and my inquiries have discovered dam- 
mer trees in the neighbourhood of Tripati, the produce of 
which constitutes a considerable article of the trade be- 
tween the western coast of this peninsula and China. 
* Qn these mountains Dr Koening described the gar- 
@enia enneandria, and gardenia gummifera, as two different 
species, and the care with which he distinguifhed species 
precludes the idea he could be mistaken ; they both yield 
_ @ resinous granulated sap, pofsefsing the aroma of the 
rug called gum elemi, a concrete piece of which I have 
the honour to transmit you for the pereree ee the learn- 
ed in Europe. 
Accompanying this is a specimen of the hemsaiiag flax 
mentioned in my letter to Dr Berry of the 15th +«/i- 
mo, which, for the reasons there stated, I think an object 
worthy every pofsible attention, and likewise directed to 
the honourable Court of Directors. 
Mr Mason from Kew garden is on his third voyage to 
the Cape of Good Hope, to whom, and to colonel Gor- 
don, I intend transmitting copies of my publications, with 
a view to render the nopalry garden more extensively use- 
ful ; and as none of our outward bound fhips touch at the 
' Cape, the compliment of a letter from you to that govetn- 
ment, stating the establifhment of a garden here for the 
culture of foreign plants, would prove highly serviceable, 
by enabling these gentlemen to procure conveyance for 
many valuable productions of their wide and unwearied re- 
searches. 
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