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Dr Sloane obferves this (bsuh in fmMica very much 
to vary ia its outward appearance, the like I find in 
Specimens I have received from the Eafi Indies^ viz, 
fome with Leaves an inch broad and fomewhat long, 
others not above a quarter broad and very fliorr. The 
fame I have from China^ with very long ilender Leaves, 
and not half an inch broad^ and yet the texture of ait 
thefe the fame. 
This Variation may in fome meafure attone for Df 
Plukemts Erroiir, in making no lefs than 3 differing 
Plants J if not fof^r of this one. For, Firjl of ail he 
^difcovers only its Leaves, and thefe alone"' he Figures .p^^„^, .^..^ 
• in his Phjtogr. Tab. 141. Fig« i. After this, feeing fj^'c ' '^^^' 
it with me in Fruit from the Eafi Indies^ and receiving 
it himfelf, I fiippofe from Jamaica ^ he now makes 
both thefe two different Plants, and diftinguifties 
them from the firft under the Title of Triopterk in his 
Almagefi. Botan. p. 377. Fourthly in his faid Book, p 
7. he there aflerts, contrary to the opinion of ihxnQ ^^ar£g,'j6.mg. 
Authors, the Frutex innominatm infiar Salicis pumils 
in arenofis locis nafcens Marcgrav Hijl. Nat, Brafl, p. 
76. to be a different Plant from the afore going,w^hich 
if he can, and will be pleafed to fhevv' to be fo, will 
Coon clear that doubt. 
86. Perrepan-chedde M^M. 
Rottang Mdabar. mmox^ Act. Fhil^ No. 244. p. ^,-?. phii.No, 
326. pi. 27. . 244. p. 3a(5. 
The lelTer Rattan or Cane-chair Reed; '^* 
This Cane is very accurately defcribed, and defign- 
€d in a Figure lately fent to Mr Ray and me, from the 
Learned Jefuic George Jofeph Camel^ wherein the hairy 
Spimd£ ("which no other Icon has yet taken notice ofj 
on the back, rib and edges of the Lx:af are here well 
cxpreft, as alfo the (horc crooked ones on the (lieaths 
only of the Fruit Branches, cu?df which are alfo feen 
on the ftalks between the Leaves. T 1 1 1 1 2 This 
