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here I mull beg the favour of this Honourable So- 
ciety, when they come more attentively to confider 
this matter, to compare his anfwer to the Abbe Ma- 
zeas’s letter, and his reply to me, in this particular 
part. 
I fhall only at prefent take notice, that Catelby 
fays, this Toxicodendron, with the pear-fhaped fruit, 
grows ufually on rocks in Providence, Ilathera, and 
other of the Bahama iflands ; and does not mention, 
that he ever faw it in Carolina. I cannot find it de- 
fcribed by any author as growing in Carolina, or in 
any other part of the continent of North America : 
nor do I believe that there is a plant of it now grow- 
ing in England, or that it is even the fame genus 
with Dillenius’s rhomboidal-fruited one, from the 
different ftrudture both of its leaves as well as fruit. 
In looking over Dr. Linnaeus’s Hortus Cliff or tianus, 
I find he gives this Bahama Toxicodendron of Catef- 
by as a fynonym to his Elemifera joliis pinnatis , 
p. 486. 
I now come to that part of Mr. Miller’s reply, re- 
lating to the China varnilh-tree, that was raifed from 
feeds fent to the Royal Society by Father D’lncar- 
ville ; where he Rill infills on it, that this is the 
fame with the fpurious varnilh-tree of Kcempfer. His 
reafons are, that notwithftanding the indentation and 
roundnefs of the bottom of the lobe-leaves of the 
China varnilh-tree, and tho’ the lobe-leaves of the 
fpurious Japan varnilh-tree come to a point at the 
bale, and are no-way indented, but. quite even on 
the edges ; yet he fays, becaufe they have an equal 
number of pinna, or lobe-leaves, on the whole leaf 
of each tree, they mull be the fame. 
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