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names of this fhrub, by fuch Botanical writers as I 
have had an opportunity to confultj and, as I have 
found it fpoke of but by very few, I hope you will 
fo much the readier excufe me. The firft author 
that gives us an account of this plant is Dr. Plukenet , 
after him Mr. Petiver and Pay, but none of them 
gave us a true Botanical name or defcription, much 
lefs referred it to its proper clafs, order or genus j and 
notwithftanding fo many good fpecimens were pre- 
ferved in the Botanical collections of Sir Hans Sloane , 
now in the BritiJJo Mufeuni , it was taken no farther 
notice of, before the ingenious Mr. Miller of Chelfea 
gave us the defcription and drawing in his Gardener s 
Hidlionary and Figures of Plants , from the plant he 
faw at Mr. Warner s garden. Mr. Ehret foon after- 
wards published a moll; elegant figure ol it, and Mr. 
Ellis at laft com pleated the Botanical defcription, in 
the PbiloJ'opkical Fran faff ions. 
Thofe gentlemen have mentioned this fhrub, un- 
der the following names : 
Arbufcula Sinenfis, myrti majoris folio, vafculo 
feminali hexagono, ad lingulos angulos alis foliaceis 
munito, quae porreCtae vafculi coronam efformant, 
Umki Sinenlibus diCta. Plukn. Amalth. p. 29. 
Umki, alias Umuyj cujus fruCtum ad colorem e- 
fcarlatinum tingendum inlervitj florem fert rofaceum, 
album, hexapetalum. Plukn. Amalth. p. 212. tab. 
448 .f 4. 
Frutex cynofbati fruCtu alato, tinCtorio, barbulis lon- 
gioribus coronato. Petiv. MuJ. p. 49 ^* ^ a Jl‘ Hijl. 
III. p. 233. . . - 
Jafminum foliis lanceolatis oppofitis integerrimis, 
calycibus acutioribus. Mill. Diffi. n. n. Mill. fig • 1 80. 
J ' '‘jafminum. 
