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tliis figure, as I before obferved, is drawn from a 
flowering branch. Every one, yvho is the leafi: ac- 
quainted with thefe things, knows, that the leaves 
immediately below the flowers are confiderably lefs 
than thofe on the lower part of the branches : there- 
fore this is a more effential note of diftindion than 
thofe mentioned by Mr. Ellis.- 
I muft alfo obferve, that Mr. Ellis would fuggeft, 
that I fuppofed thefe two flirubs were only varieties 
©f each other produced by culture : whereas it muft 
appear to every one, who reads my paper, that my 
intention in mentioning the fpurious varnifh-tree 
was to fliew it was different from Kcempfer’s true 
varnilh-tree, altho’ Koempfer fuppofes otherwife. 
For the fatisfadion of the curious, I have added 
a leaf of each fhrub, which are now growing in 
the Chelfea garden, that if any perfon has the cu- 
riofity, they may compare them with Koempfer’s. 
In my paper I took notice, that one of the beft 
kinds of varnifh was colleded from the Anacardium- 
in Japan ; and recommended it to the inhabitants of 
the Britifti iflands in America, to make trial of the 
occidental Anacardium, or Cafhew-nut tree, which- 
abounds in thofe iflands.. This has occafioned Mr. 
Ellis to take great pains to (hew, that the eaftern 
and weftern Anacardium were different trees : a fad:, 
which was well known to every botanift before ; and 
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of which I could not be ignorant, having been pof- 
feffed of both forts near thirty years. But as I was 
affured, from many repeated experiments, that the 
milky juice, with which every part of the Calhew- 
tree abounds, would ftain linen with as permanent a 
black as that of the oriental Anacardiurq; fo I juft- 
hinted, 
