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of the Rains which fall there in Abundance half the 
Year. This Shrub is lefs in all its Parts in Arabia , 
and to the South of Berfia, becaufc in thofe Coun- 
tries it rains feldom ; bur, in Recompence, its Flow- 
ers have much more Smell than in Malabar. It 
nuift be remarked here upon this Occafion, that the 
Defcription juft now given, and which contains the 
Size ol the Parts, was made in a Garden in the Per - 
Jian Gulf belonging to the 'Dutch Fadory, and fitu- 
ate about a League from the Town of Gamer oon y 
otherwife called Bender- AbaJJi, where there was 
one of. thefe Trees carefully preferved, which was 
the firft I faw in the Indies j as it was complete in 
all its Parts, having Flowers and Fruit ; and as it ap- 
peared to me agreeable and curious, efpecially on 
account of the fine Smell of the Flowers, and as it was 
a new Genus to be eftablifhed in Botany, I exa- 
mined it with great Exadnefs, and noted its Cha- 
raders, Figures, and Dimenfions. I did not conceive 
it to be the Cyprus , not then knowing what it was. 
I asked the People of the Country the Name of this 
beautiful Shrub: They only called it Henna , and I 
could learn no other Name : They allured me it had 
no other Name, either in Berfia, or in Arabia. It 
was on the i ft of December 1721. that I obferved 
it, and deferibed it under the Name of Frutex Per- 
ficus , folds Liguflrt, fore et fruliu racemofo , Henna 
vulgo dilius. I thus charaderized it, in Expcdation 
of finding it, if it had already been deferibed among 
Authors, after my Return to Europe . When I re- 
turned in 1730. I had the Satisfadion to find it in 
Mr. Ray s Hiftory, by the Defcription which he has 
given of it, extraded from various Authors, in the 
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