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torn a gritty or fandy {tone, and feemcd in full perfections 

 The branch is of its natural fize ; on one of the fmaller or ■ 

 collateral branches is the flower full blown, with two ci- 

 thers that are buds. The parts are feparated. and defigned I 

 with care. 



The firft figure is the flower in its entire Hate, feen in i 

 front, the ftamina of courfe fore-fliortened..- The fecond is 

 an angular three-quarter view of the calix. The third is a 

 back view of the calix. The fourth is the calix inclofing ihe 

 ftamina and piftil, round which lart they form afruitorgrain. 

 Thefifth is the flower ftript of its calix, where is feen the germ, 

 the ftamina, and the piftil. The fixth is the ftamina magni- 

 fied to twice their fize. The feventhis the lower leaf. The 

 eighth, the upper leaf of the flower. The ninth, the germ, or 

 rudiment of the fruit, with the piftil joined to it, at the 

 bottom of which there is a fmall cavity. The tenth is the 

 feed or fruit entire. The eleventh reprefents the infide of 

 the feed cut in half. 



The leaves of this fhrub are of a vivid green, and are 

 joined to the branch by a long pedicle, in the infide of 

 which are the rudiments of another, which I fuppofe 

 begin to fprout when the large one is injured or falls 

 off. 



Though very little acquainted with the fcientific part of 

 botany myfelf, its ciafTes, genera, and fpecies, and ftill lefs 

 jealous of my reputation in it, I cannot conceive why my 

 fingle attention, in charging myfelf with a number of feeds 

 in diftant countries, and giving part to the garden at Paris, 

 fhoukl lead to a concluiion that I was fo absolutely unin* 

 a fhucted 



