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a new Genus of Plants* 
Petioli breviufculi, fuperne canaliculati, glabri. 
Stipule interpetiolares, utrinque denticulis duobus mi- 
nutis, membranaceze, perfiflentes. 
Flores paniculati. 
Panicula terminalis, eredba, (implex. 
Racemi (vel /piece) oppofiti, decuffati, erectiufculi, fubfafti- 
giati. 
Flores oppofiti, decuffati, feffiles, folitarii, minuti, mag- 
liitudine capitis aciculae, fubfucculenti, ex albido lutei. 
Pollen flavum. 
Stigmaja aibida. 
Bacca nigra, magnitudine piperis. 
I have not been able to find any defeription or figure anfweiv- 
Ing to this plant in the works of the Eaft-Indian naturalifls* 
I have only met with one Chinefe drawing, in the library -of 
Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P. R. S. among fome others of their 
garden plants, that feems to reprefent the prefent. 
It is faid to be called Chu-Lan by the Chinefe ; but it ought 
not to be confounded with the Tsjiulang or Camunium Chi- 
nenfe of Rumphius (Herb. Amboin. 1. VII. cap. xv. and 
Audtuarii ejufd. cap. xlvii.), the defeription of which feems 
to correfpond in fome parts with the Chloranthus : the firft 
figure, however, on the eighteenth plate fhews the plant of 
Rumphius to be the Vitex pinnata of Linnaeus. 
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