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Chapter of Ligujtrum under the Synonyma of Tar- 
kinfon , and to fee it in the other Authors I have 
mention'd, efpecially the Figure given by Rauwolf , 
which is not a bad one, and which is copied by 
Clu fius, c Dodon<eus, Tar kinfon, and c Dalechamp. 
The Figure in the Hortus Malabaricus under the 
A Name of Mail-anfchi , does not fo happily reprefent 
our Cyprus , as that excellent Work generally does 
the Plants it treats of. The Leaves of this Plant 
there are half-wither’d, and not in their natural Dif- 
pofition. Rauwolf’s Figure is much nearer theTruth. 
The Flowers are not much better reprefented than the 
Leaves, in the Hortus Malabaricus ; as, befidcs other 
things of iefs Moment, the Authors of that Work 
have negle&ed to make the Petals appear between 
the Lobes of the Calyx, as always happens in a na- 
tural State i by which Difpofition the Flower appears 
of an o&agonal Figure. Rumphius, who has writ- 
ten an Hillory of the Plants of Molucca , has given 
a Defcription of this Shrub, not different from 
mine. 
By what is here laid down of the Charafters of 
this Plant, we plainly fee that it differs widely from 
the Oxyacantha and Rhamnus ; of one of which 
the Authors of the Notes to the Hortus Malabaricus 
Tu (petted the Cyprus to be a Species. This occa- 
iion’d Mr. Ray to range it under the laff, fuppofing 
its Fruit to 'be a Berry, which nevcrthelefs it is nor. 
This learned Author moreover could not think that 
the Mail-anfchi was the Cyprus, becaufe of the Dif- 
ference in the Defcriptions among Authors, and of 
the Imperfettion of thofe of Rauwolf and Alp inns . 
Rumphius , juft now quoted, has ill compared the 
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