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XL A Letter from Dr . Laurence Garcin, 
of Neuchatel, F.R.S. to Sir Hans Sloane 
Bart, late P. R. S. concerning the Cyprus 
of the Ancients : Done from the French by 
W. Watfon, F. R. S. 
SIR, 
Read Nov. 2 4- ,r ^| ^ HE Plant in Qucftion is a Shrub, 
1748. which varies confiderably in its 
Size and Figure, according to the Nature and Soil 
of the Country where it naturally grows, as well 
in Afia as in Africa , where this Plant is much ufed, 
both as a Medicine, and for its agreeable Odour. 
Our Author has given us the true Characters of 
the Fructification of the Cyprus , after the Method of 
the celebrated Linneus. 
1. Its Calyx is an expanded monophyllous Cup, 
cut into four Lobes, pointed at their Extremities, 
and continuing attached to the Fruit. 
2. Its Corolla confifts of foui oval Petals, fome- 
what pointed and finuous. They grow diftant one 
from the other, and are placed between the Lobes 
of the Calyx. 
3 It has eight cre£t Stamina , ranged two by two 
almoft horizontally, and parallel to the Sides of the 
Petals, and furpafs them in Length about half a 
Line. They grow from the Bate of the Embryo at 
a little Diftance one from the other, and arife dimi- 
nifhing in their Bulk to their Extremities. Their 
Anther a or Summits form each of them a little 
kind of Purfe. 
4. Its 
