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allowing, even that fome fpecies of pepper -.regularly have two fta- 

 mina to each o-ermen, this cannot be fafficient to remove them out 



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of the clafs ; fince we {tQtkiS,Aru77ifcgiLiim7n^macrQrhizon, and 

 cfciilentumy the .Draconthinty and the . P(5^/6c?j-, ■ Vs^hich have all either 



four, iix, or feven ftamiina. regularly round each germen, flill con- 



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tinue in. the clafs Gynandria Folyandria. 



This is an abilrad; of the obfervations, v/hich we were able to 

 make on the claffiiication of plants, and of the claffes which are 

 chiefly found in: the ifies of the South-Sea. J Ihall only add, con- 

 cerning the defcriptions or definitions of the known fpecies in Lin- 



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nsus, that we have found them, in general, very exadl in the 

 American plants, but more inaccurate in thofe of the Eafl- Indies : " 



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.a circumftance, which I can only attribute to the following caufe : 

 The American plants have had the good fortune to be examined 

 and defcribed in their native foil, by the moft expert botanifts of 



the prefent age ; the late favourite difciple of Linnaeus, Peter Loef- 



ling ; the great and confummate obferver, Jacquin j Dr. P. Browne; 

 Mr. Juflieu, &c. On the contrary, the Indian plants are chiefly 

 known from hcrbals, and the more inaccurate, unfaithful, and un- 

 fcientific accounts of the botanifls of the lafl age j for we can 

 . hardly exped much from the few opportunities, which the difciples 

 of the great father of botany have had, of fnatching up a few 

 ants, as they have been chiefly confined to the voyage to China ; 



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