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Quercus chinensis Bge. of North-China has leaves resembling those of 
the chestnut. 
88. j Rhamnus Emuy acus maritimus, flore coeruleo. 
The leaves li^e Sea Purslain but smaller and nearly stalkless. 
From them towards the top of the branches come 2-3 pentape-* 
talous flowers set in a like divided calyx. The footstalks of 
some of them are near \ inch. 
89. Rhus Emuyaca folio serrato subtus molli, rachi alato. 
Some of these leaves are broader and more or less serrated 
than others. The stalk is larger or smaller winged as the 
twigs are older or younger. Mr. Cunningham says they eat 
the berries which are sour and have a dew on them. He 
further observes, that from the broken branches there issues 
out a turpentine like balsamic liquor. 
Perhaps Rhus semialata Murr. which is found in North-China as 
well as in the South, or Rhus chinensis. Mill. 
90. Ricinus chinensis sebifera, Populi nigrae folio. Gazoph. 
tab. 34, fig. 3. Mus. nost. S65. Kieu-yeu P. Martini in Atl. sin. 
The leaves grow alternately on long slender footstalks, some 
of them much extended in the middle and very sharp pointed. 
The flowers are yellow, mighty small, and grow in a slender 
catkin like those in Hazel. The fruit is about the bigness of a 
middling nut, smooth, blackish, and trisulcated, opening into 
3 parts, discovers as many white seeds, from whence and its 
kernels, I suppose, the suet or fat is produced, each being 
covered with a white fatty body, under which is a brown hard 
shell, containing an unctuous kernel, which by bruising turns 
almost wholly to an oil. 
Mr. Sam. Brown first sent me this some years ago from 
China, since which I have received it from Emoy and Chusan. 
There are two young trees of this now growing, September 27. 
1703, in the Charterhouse, raised this year by Mr. Cole Gardiner. 
The tree here described is Stillingia sebifera Michx. repeatedly spoken 
of in this paper. 
91. Ricinus forte chusan. Tiliae folio. 
These leaves grow alternately on footstalks, some above 2 
inches long, of the bigness of the Mulberry and Lime tree, but 
not serrated. At the top grow spikes of thrummy flowers, like 
thd common Palma Christi, but closer set. I hope the next 
ship from Chusan will bring me it in fruit. 
92. Thea chinensis vera potulenta. Gazoph. tab. 21, fig. 10. 
Ghaa chinensibus.—Bontius Hist. nat. Ind. or p. 88, fig. 
The principal authors, who have given us accounts of the Tea 
plant are: Bontius, Breynius, Dufour, Pecklin, Pomet, Ray, 
Tulpius. 
