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Though this importation of the seeds was the most 

 successful as to its produce (for from it nearly all the 

 plants then in our gardens were obtained,) yet the 

 original introduction of the first species was (on the 

 authority of the Hortus Kewensis) from Spain, in 

 1/89, by the Marchioness of Bute ; but it is probable 

 that the plant so introduced was soon after lost, as 

 we do not find any further notice taken of it. The 

 other species, then called Coccinea, was actually 

 flowered by Mr. John Frazer, who is said to have 

 obtained it from France in 1802, the same year in 

 which it was produced in the French gardens from 

 seed procured from Madrid. It also appears, that in 

 the autumn of 1803, Mr. Woodford flowered, at Vaux- 

 hall, a plant of Cavanille's D. Rosea, which he had 

 obtained from Paris ; so that, independently of one 

 introduced by the Marchioness of Bute, in 1789, it 

 seems that both species had flowered in this country 

 before the seeds were transmitted by Lady Holland. 



At Madrid they were a long time in the Royal 

 Garden without any indications of change ; and it 

 will be seen that after they were spread through 

 Europe, some years elapsed before any extensive in- 

 crease of variation took place. 



Mons. De Candolle, it is said, obtained from Ma- 

 drid the plants which he cultivated at Montpelier, 

 about the same time they were sent to Paris. His 

 Memoir was printed in 1810, and he therein describes 

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