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and outwardmoft being very (hort, the inwardmoft Four 
Inches long, each of them ending in a Point, fqme Scales 
having on their out-fides a gummy Juice. In the middle 
of thefe Scales were the firft Rudiments of many Seeds, 
the fame not being fully ripe, each of which (fee the 
Fig. lit. L) is fee about with a great quantity of J inch 
long, yellow fine filken Down, (fee the Fig. lit, M)lm- 
ving a two Inches long Stylus or String, (fee the Fig. lit, 
N') and yellowilh Membranes enclofing the Stylus and 
7 'omentum, being feathered at top with Feathers for the 
fame purpo fes, and like the former. 
I cannot find this mentioned by any Author, unlets- 
it be that of Breynius in his Appendix to his firft Cen- 
tury, p.zz. Frutex Africanus, fraticis terrililis Nar- 
honenfium folio capitulis oblongis fquammofis, gathered by 
Wilhelmus Ten Rhine, and fent to him from the Cape of 
Good-hope. 
V. The Extra&s of Four Letters from Mr. John 
Banifler to Dr* Lifter, communicattd by him 
to the Fubiiftjer* 
j 
SIR, 
'~T n O do right to the Memory of my Friend Mr.fl*- 
j[ niUer, who indeed was a very Learned and Sa- 
gacious Naturalift; had lived 14 years at leaft in Virgin 
nia, and therefore, having employed much of his 
Time that w r ay, was moil likely to have given us a 
very good Natural Hiftory of that place. I. under- 
ftand after his Death the Government of that p!ace 
took Cpecial care of his Papers to feal them up, and 
tranfmit them to my Lord Bifhop of London here,* in 
P % whole 
