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Explanation of PLATE XII. 
A A branch of the Illicium Floridanum, drawn 
from a plant in her Royal Highnefs the 
Princefs Dowager of Wales’s garden at Kew. 
The flowers and feed-veflels were drawn from 
fpecimens fent over from Penfacola by his 
honour lieutenant governor Durnford. 
BB The front view of two flowers. 
C The back view of a flower. 
D The bud of a flower unopened. 
E E E The pifiilla, or female organs, being 
the embryo feed-veflel,.feparated from the 
ftamina, or male organs. 
F One Angle piftillum, with the germen, ftyle, 
and ftigma. 
G The male and female organs, a little mag- 
nified. 
H Two ftamina, a little magnified. 
I The farina frponndans or male dull. 
K K The calyx, with five little leaves. 
L L The feed-veflels, with thirteen capfules. 
L 1 The feed-veflel of the Chinefe Illicium , with 
only eight capfules. Ksmpfer reckons the 
fame number in the Japonefe Illicium, which 
he calls Somo, or Skimmi. 
M Two of the feeds; they are called femen 
badian, and jUfed in medicine in Germany, 
Denmark, and Sweden. The Dutch import 
large quantities of them from China. 
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