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vqu a icetch of a leaf, and fome of the fruit, which 
I copied out of Catefby’s Natural Hidory, for your 
own obfervution, that you may compare it with the 
other figures, to fave you the trouble of turning to 
the original. 
How near Father D Incarville, the jefuit of Pe- 
king Varnifh-tree, which he fays grows in the pro- 
vince of Nankin, will agree with tire figure Kaempfer 
has given us of his Fafi-no-ki, (7) or lpurious Var- 
nilh tree, which Mr. Miller fays in his letter are the 
fame, I fhall leave to thofe gentlemen who may 
have feen it growing in your curious exotic garden 
at Bufbridge, or at the Phyfic Garden at Chelfea ; at 
both which places it has been railed from feed re- 
ceived from the Royal Society, fent by Father D’ln- 
curville a few years ago: but left it may not be in 
the power of every curious perfon to take that trou- 
ble, I have fent you the figure of one of the leaves, 
which I drew from a fpecimen I got in your gar- 
den. As it has not been yet deferibed, I dull call 
it (8) “ Rhus finenfe foliis alatis, foliolis oblongis acu- 
minatis, ad bafin lubrotundis & dentatis.” You'll 
obferve the lobes or fmall leaves are of an oblong 
figure, pointed at top and roundifh at the bottom, 
where they are remarkably jagged with about four 
teeth. 1 have joined to the figure of this on the 
fame paper an exadt copy of a leaf of Kaempfer’s 
Fafi-no-ki (9), or fpurious Varnifh-tree, for your own 
remarks. Kaampfer takes notice in his, that the 
middle nerve often divides the fmall leaves into two 
(7) See Fig. 4. Tab. 25. 
(9) See fig. 4. Tab. 25. 
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(8) See Fig. 5. Tab. 25. 
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