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FIg-marygolds, (Mcfemhryanthema)^ Aloes, Purf- 

 laneSy &c. Among the others, we are aftoniflied 

 with the variety of the Heaths^ (Ericse), C^rania^ 

 Frot££^ and Gnaphalia, 



Since the publication of M. Wammar^^ thefis, 

 great difcoveries in botany have been made ia 

 fouthern Africa by I'hunherg and Sparmann^ and by 

 Mr, Majfon •, and we have reafon to exped a com*, 

 plete account of the plants of that country from 

 Dr. Laurence Burman^ fon of profeflbr J. Burman^ 

 who has already given us a compendious lift of 

 th^m in his Flora Indica, 



96. Flora Jamaicensis, C. G. Sandmark, 1759. 



The author begins his Flora with a general 

 account of the geography of the ifland, and its 

 produce ; fpecifying particularly fome of the moft 

 ufeful articles thence imported : as, Cmiacum^ 

 Fuftic^ Ebony^ Logwood^ Brafiletto^ Mahogany^ In- 

 digo^ Sugar ^ Coffee^ Cot ton ^ Pimento^ and Ginger, 

 He then fubjoins an account of the two principal 

 works, from which his catalogue is compiled ; 

 thefe are Sir Hans Sloane's Hiftory and Dr. Browne's, 

 The former of thefe writers appears to have been 

 the firft naturaliji who vifited that ifland, and he 

 brought back with him 800 fpecies of plants. The 

 latter is faid to have made a colie(5lion amounting 

 to 1200, which, after the publication of his Hif- 

 tory, he prefented to Linnaeus. As Dr, Browne 

 followed the Linn^ean fyftem, his book is referred 

 $0 in this Flora. 



97, PuqiLLus 



