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XXII. A Defcription of a rare American 
Plant of the Brownasae Kind ; with fome 
Rejnarks on this Genus. By Mr. Peter 
Jonas Bergius, F. R . S . 
Read Feb. ii, S the Leucandendra, Brum#, Diofm#, 
I773 ' /V Phytic# , Hermann ice, &c. are pe- 
culiar to Africa, fo are likewife the Varroni# , Ehreti # t 
Samyd # , Malpighi #, Caffi, Brown##, &c. peculiar 
to America, not having been found in any other 
country: at prefent I will confine myfelf to the lafl 
mentioned kind. 
Mr. Jacquin, during his botanical travels in Ame- 
rica, founded this genus, in memory of Dr. Patrick 
Browne, the celebrated Englifh botanifl ; but Jac- 
quin found only one fpecies of this genus ; neither 
was Sir Ch. Linne hitherto acquainted with any 
more. 
I have now fpecimens of a new fpecies of this 
kind, which I received from Mr. Pihl, who ga- 
thered it in Portobello in America, which will afford 
an opportunity of exhibiting the whole genus of 
the Brown##, and the fpecifical differences of it. 
If we compare Mr. Jacquin’s defcription of his 
fpecies with mine, we fee how carefully nature has 
obferved the fame order and pofition of the effential 
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