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liar Species. The laft is a flat round ftellated Uchmus , 
f und on the Coafls of China by that Curious Natura- 
list and Surgeon Mr. Junes Cunningham. 
Tne largeft Figure in this Table, is the true Turtne- 
rick of the Shopps , which is here very neatly delineated 
from a defign of Father Kamel, who (contrary to the 
Opinion of Matthiolus , Cordus, and even feme later Wri- 
ter ) fays, that the Long and Round rooted are the Fa me 
Plarr, viz. the l*(l is the Parent- or tuberous Glands, 
and the Long its Branches or Offsprings : The lundry 
Names and Verities are largely defenbd by him in the 
Appendix to Mr. Raj s 3d Volume, p. 23. Fig. 4. gives 
you a large Broom-rape with a purple Flower, found wild 
in the Tandy Places of Barb ary, wnere its call’d by the 
Inhabitants there Danoon : And in the laft place you 
have the Figure of the Broom itfelf, to which it grows : 
Its call’d in their Arabick Language Rorum : It bears a 
whitifh Flower, and probably is the fame which the Spa- 
niards call Retama. The fmaller Figures are of divers 
Eajt- India Infers, chiefly from Luzone, with forae Fruits 
from thence, and one from Guiney. 
The beginning of this Table continues the Figures of 
other Fruits from Gurney , Jamaica , and Luzone, wi h 3 
rare Beetles and a butterfly from the laft Place. The 
reft are feveral Plants obferv’d in Barbarj , and delinea 
ted there by Mr. John James , a Surgeon, about A. D. 
1680. where he had been a Captive near 20 Years, and 
in that time had made feveral Remarks on the Plants 
of thofe Parts, and has defign’d the chief of them ; a 
Manufcript of which, with his Obfervations on them, 
Mr. James Petiver , the Author, has ftill by him. Fig. 7. 
is a wild Oat from thence, which the Moors call Khortan ^ 
it is ripe in May. Fig. 8. Mitiniam, which dignifies J heng , 
is a Plant with a yellow Flower , and Leaves like Tyme ; 
of its Bark, they make Cords and Ropes , as we do of 
Hemp. Fig. 9. is a yellow pentapetalous Flower , with 
D d d fmall 
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