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To confirm myfelf in the difcovery I had made, I 
obtained leave to look over the colle&ions of dried 
plants at the Britijh Mufeum , where many are pre- 
ferved, that can be met with no where elfe, and 
by the affiftance of the affiduous Mr. Empjon , I 
found feveral good fpecimens of this valuable fhrub, 
viz. in Hort, Sicc. XX. p. 2 c. 86. XCIV. p. 130. 
/ *CCXL VII. p. 2 5, CCLXXXIX. p. 3 3 . andCCCXXXI. 
p. 90, all gathered in the Eajt Indies by Mr. Cun- 
ningham. The greater part of thefe fpecimens were 
in fruit, but one or two with perfect blofloms, and 
they were fo exactly correfponding with Mr. Ellis’s 
account, that I can find nothing to alter or add to it. 
There is however one thing I will not omit menti- 
oning, as it may in fome meafure account for the 
unequal number of the divifions in the double 
bloflbms; it is, that fome of the fpecimens at the 
Britifh Mufeum have their calyx divided into five, 
and others into fix figments or wings, which fhew, 
that the inequality is not altogether peculiar to the 
double flowers; and I have had drawings made from 
the bejl fatnples I could find in the collection, which 
are here annexed, the better to explain what I have 
faid ; where Tab. XX. Fig. A. fhews a fpecimen with 
a f w gj e blojfom ; Fig. B. another with the fruit , both 
gathered in China by Mr. Cunningham j Fig. C. a Capful 
with only Jive divisions in the Calyx (which I fuppofe 
to be the natural number) taken from another dried 
fpecimen of the fame gentleman’s ; Fig. D. a tranf- 
verfe feBion of the fame Capful , to fhew the two cclls y 
with many Seeds in them ; and Fig. E. reprefents the 
Seeds of their natural fize. 
If it will not too much trefpafs upon your patience, 
I fhall beg leave to infert what is faid relative to the 
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