C 4-4-7 3 
In anfwer to this, I fay their lobe-leaves are not 
equal 3 for I have examined both the fpecimens and 
drawings of Dr. Kcempfer’s fpurious varnifh-tree, and 
I don’t find that the number of the pinnae exceed leven 
on a fide : whereas I have a fmall fpecimen of a leaf 
by me, that was taken from the top of one of D’ln- 
carville’s China varnifh-trees, which is above eight 
feet high, and hands in an open expofure ; and. this 
leaf, tho’ but a foot long, has 12 lobe-leaves on a fide, 
and each lobe indented at the bafe *. At the fame 
time I obferved, that the leaves of the young fhoots 
of another tree were a yard long, as they were this 
fummer at the garden of the Britifh Mufeum. An- 
other thing is remarkable in the leaves of this China 
varnifh-tree 3 and that is, the lobes of the leaves, as 
they approach to the end, grow fmaller and fmaller 3 
whereas in the fpurious Japan varnifh-tree they are 
rather, if there is any difference, larger towards the 
end. 
I fhall make this further remark, that tho’ thefe 
indentations on the lobe-leaves may vary in number 
in this China varnifh-tree 3 yet, as I obferved before, 
fince they are continued on even in the fmaller leaves 
at the top of the branches of a tree eight feet high 
in the open ground, it appears to me, that this fpe- 
cific character, befides the form and infertion of the 
lobe-leaves, will ever diflinguifh it as a different 
fpecies from the Vafi-no-ki , or fpurious varnifh-tree 
of Kcempfer. 
Mr. Miller now goes on to tell us, he is confirmed 
in his belief of their being the fame, by making 
fome obfervations on the feeds of this China varnifh- 
* See Tab. XVII. where this fpecimen is exadly delineated. 
