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FOREIGN 



PLANTS. 



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Ijat'tn ISfa?jit's. 



Olibanuju Thus 



Mafculum 

 Nux Mofchata 



Ofiic. 



CaryopJiylus aro- 



niuticus 

 Piper Nignim 

 Garcinia Monga- 



Ilona 



ames, 



l-'r-aukiatcnfe 



2dF.d. L. Sp.r EvgUJhNan 



Dale. 30a 

 Lin. Sp. 735 



J.ecli 



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Ipecacuanha 



.Ferula AiTa Fce- 

 tida 



p. 40 

 P- 6,35 



Dale 170 

 Margrave i; 



Lin. Sp. 35^; 



Nutnicgs with 



Mace * 

 Cloves 



S\-pper 

 Manguftecns 



LcchcG of China 



ipecacuanhaof the 

 ihops or Brazilian 

 root 



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llTa Fa;tida, or 

 Devil's dung, 

 called Iling in 

 the Malay lan- 

 guage. 



OLfervations . 



In the Upper Egypt and mtcrior parts of 



Africa. 

 In Aiiiboyna.. 



In the Molucca iilands.^ 



'Sumatra.- 



A mofl delicious fruit, grows in Java, and In 

 feveral parts of the Eaft-Indles. 



This fniit is highly commended by all perfons ' 

 who have been in China. |j- 



Very ufeful in medicine, and worthy of our 

 attention to propagate it in our Weft-In- 

 dia iilands : At prefent it's genus is un- 

 known to the botaniHs. 



The gum of this p!ant is much ufcd in me- 

 dicine. Kxtnpf. ^1,^ and 536. 



* Specimens of the Nutmeg-tree in fruit from the ifland of Tobago have been lately receiv- 

 ed by the Earl of Hiiill)orough, which his Lordfliip has fent, with fpecimens of niany other 

 curious plants, for the infoimatiou of the public, to the Bi-itifh Mufeum. They are certainly 

 of the f^unc ^enus with tlie true nutmeg, and poiTibly may be improved by cultivation; the 

 mace evidently covers them, and they liavc all tht charai^ers and the fame leaves with the wild 

 nutmc^'- tree defcribedby Rumphius, in his Herbarium Amboincnfe, publiflicdby Bunnan. 



[j The charatScrs of this fruit are not yet known to the botanifts. 



To this catalogue may be added Iit[uorice, fufPron, and aloes focotriua : Of the two firft we 

 donot raife near afufficicncy at home for our own confumption, but are obliged to import 

 thofe. articles from Spain. 



The Society having thought proper to give a place to the 



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Directions, (taken alfa from Mr 



for bringing over Seeds and Plants from dif. 



cfjary tofubjoinfo 



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Jiate of 



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ANY valuable trees and plants, yet unknown to 



us, grow in diftant countries, particularly in the 

 northern provinces of China, about the latitude of 40 de- 

 crees, which would thrive well in North-America, more 

 efpecially In thcfe middle colonies, which lie about the 

 fame latitude. But as the diftance is great, the manner 

 of prefervlng the feeds properly, fo as to keep them in a 

 ftate of vegetation, is an affair of confiderableconfequence 

 and fome difficulty. The following hints are therefore 

 offered for that purpofe. 



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