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and in this he thinks himfelf juftified, not only from 
the Defcription of Diofcorides, but from the Virtues 
attributed to the Cyprus by Pliny. He even ridicules 
thofe who think that the Ligujlrum and Cyprus arc 
different Plants. Fuchjtus y who wrote before Mat - 
thiolus, had neverthelefsReafon to believe them of a 
different Genus , by the Account given of the Egyptian 
Plant by ‘Pliny > but he was wrong in confounding 
it with the P hilly rea of Diofcorides y and in this 
Miflake has been followed by ‘Dodonaus . 
Bellonius , who had feen this Plant in its Place of 
Growth, well knew that it was not the Ligujlrum 
or Privet: He faw alfo how the Commentators of 
the Arabian Authors were deceived in taking it for 
fuch. 
Rauwolf and Profper Alpinus , who met with it. 
in their Travels, after having obferved it in the 
Places of its Growth, believed, as Pliny had done, 
that it was a kind of Ligujlrum , which approached 
very near to that of Europe. They have each of 
them given a different Figure ; which made Cafpar 
Bauhin believe that there muff be two new Species 
of Ligujlrum '•> but herein he was not follow’d by 
the ingenious Mr. Ray. In fad, we ought to ac- 
knowledge, by the Charaders here fet down., that 
our Cyprus is of a Genus truly different, and the 
only one of its kind. 
The Hortus Malabaricus has given a Figure of 
this Plant under the Name of Mail-Anfchi y which 
reprefents the End of a large Branch ill-chofen, and 
fomewhat wither'd, without doubt by the Fault of 
the Dcfigner, who has drawn.it in its natural Size; 
which is greater in Malabar than elfcwhere, bcCaufe 
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