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The Leaves grow Miernately- on long {lender fodtjfat^, fgmt 
of them much extended in the middle and very pdrfr pointed\ 
The Flowers are yeUow^ mighty^^^^ ^ kn^ grdyo in a {lender 
Catl{in likc thofe in Hazel : The Fruit whole is about the bignefs 
of a midling Nut^ fmooth^ hlac\ijh and trifulcated^ opening into 
three parts difcovers as many white Seedy frem whence and its 
Kermis Ifuppofer the fuet.^ or fa^'k produced:, each being covered 
with a whm^fdnybody\ .^undery^hich W "d brown hard pell cqn* 
t dining anunlimus Kernel^ which by brufingtHrns dlmoflichoU 
ly to an OjL A' c 1 
Mr Sam. Brown {irfi fent me this fame years ago from China, 
fince which I haue received it from Enu:y andQhx\\m. , 2 hire 
are two young Trees of t hi r now growing Sept 27/1 70^, in .the 
Cha.rter'^IioufCj rdi/d^th^^jiekr- byMf^ Gole Qardi^er- of'ihat 
place. vx:^^^^ ' ' 
91. Ricinas forte CH ll SAN. Tilise folio, 
Thefe Leaves grow alternately on footfialksy fome apove two 
inches long^ ofPbehignefs of the Mulberry andLwCi^ Tree^ but 
ndt ferrafed 'iy ai the top grow fpikes of thrummy Flowers, likfi^ 
the common Palnia Chrifti,'^te^ clofer Jet. I hope the next Ships 
y}^^ Chufan will bring me it in Fruit, and then I pall give a 
farther defer ipt ion of it, 
92. TheaCHiN E N S I -S vera potulenta Gaz, Nat. 
Tab. 21. Fig. ' ' 
Cbaa C. B. 147. 7. Cliaa herba Japonfe I. B. V. 3. L. 
27. p. 5. 
Evonymo adfinis arbor Orientalis Nucifera, fl. Rofeo 
PluL Phyt.Tab. 88. Fig- 5. 
Frutex Thee Bont. Hift. Nat. L, 6- p, 88, Pig. 
Herba Te Thee Sinenfe Joncquecftirp. offic. obfcurl p. 25.- 
Styraci 8c Evonymo media affinis. The Sinenfium. f. Tfia 
Japonenfibus fl. fimplici Breyn. prodr. 2. 
The Sinenfium Tfia Japonenfibus Breyn. Cent. iii. c. 52. 
& Excerpt, ex obfervat. Will, ten Rhyne de Frutice Thee 
Ejufd. Cent. 
The s. Thea Indorum Sc Chinenfium Worm; Muf: 155. 
Fig. Folij. Thea 
