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not be attempted here ; but references may be given and some 
suggestions offered. Fi eet there can be little doubt that our plant is 
the 
same as that figured and described by Jacquin, excluding from . 
his synonymy the Sa apium arboreum foliis sy epee &c., of P. Browne 
(Hist. Jam. i, p. 338). Linneus (Sp. Pl. ed. 2, p. 1431), under the name of 
flexo auctis a Sapio jamaicensi diversum.” aicense, Sw., is 
probably the same as S. Lawrocerasum, Desf. (Cai. “PL Hort. Par. 
3, p. 411), published the same year, from cultivated plants. 
possesses a specimen bearing hp name from Herb. Gay, labelled 
“Jardin des Plantes, non le 7e Sept. 1822.” In 1818 G. F. 
p. 4 
ihe 
agi ato ¢ Plukenet’s pees arbor charlene ke. (Almagest. 
229 
some of ams at least, seem to belon ng to S. cuenparinn but further 
n 
found in the Vidensk. Meddel. Nat. Foren. Kjgb. 18 897, te 356-360, 
tt. 1 and 2. From the foliage patted this might well be S. aucu- 
parvum, Jacq.—W. Bortine Hem 
Fig. 1, base of leaf- apts and glands ; 2, mage of leaf; 3, iene of male inflores- 
cence ; 4,8 ren flower ; 5, — of fema e inflorescence ; *, longitudinal section of 
ovary; 7, cr spheres of the same; 8, a ant in its fleshy integument ; 9, a section 
of the ca: “All enlarged. 
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