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93. Tliea chinensis, Pimentae jamaicensis folio, flore rosaceo 
simplici. Gazopli. tab. 33, fig. 4. Swa Tea sen Glia Jioa 
Chinens. Hei*b. nostr. Chinense. tab. 6, fig. 11. 
This plant has a very beautiful flower, some being single and 
of a deep red, others white and some striped, there are also of 
these colours with double flowers. The Chinese and the 
Japanese keep them as an ornament in their gardens. The 
young flower bud is scaled like a cone. The fruit is about the 
bigness of a chestnut, somewhat triangular, including under a 
very thick woody shell several seeds disposed into 3 cells. It 
flowers in February. 
According to Lammarck Enc. Bot. I. 572, this is Camellia japonica. L. 
Petiver is the first botanist, who describes the plant. 
94. Thymele'a chusan. Cydoniae folio. 
The flowers are like Jasmin but 4 leaved, their tube or neck 
hoary and about \ inch long. 
95. Thymelea clmsan. Myrti rom. folio. 
96. Vitis clmsan. trifido folio. 
97. Vitis clmsan. folio parvo molli. 
CHINESE PLANTS DESCRIBED AND DEPICTED BY L. PLUKENET. 
As has been stated above, Plukenet described in his Amal- 
theum botanicum, probably in 1703 and 1704, about 400 Chinese 
plants almost all it seems from Cunningham’s collection. 
About 180 of them he represented by good drawings in his 
Phytographia, pars III. The plants in the Amaltheum are 
arranged alphabetically and the Chinese plants intermixed 
with Indian and American species and plants of the Cape. I 
shall extract in the following pages the diagnoses of all the 
Chinese plants of which engi’avings are found in the Phyto¬ 
graphia and also of the greater part of those only described, 
omitting however in many cases the detailed descriptions! 
Plukenet generally quotes Cunningham’s original descriptions. 
The pages quoted refer to the Amaltheum, the plates to the 
Phytographia, vol. III. 
Abies major sinensis pectinatis Taxi foliis. subtus cae^iis 
conis grandioribus sursum rigentibus, foliorum et squamarum 
ppiculis spinosis. P. 1. Tab. 351, fig. 1. 
Qunninghamia sinensis R. Br. 
Abies maxima sinensis pectinatis Taxi foliis, apiculis non 
spinosis. P. 1. Tab. 351, fig. 2. 
The drawing seems tp represent a Cephalotaxus. 
