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163. Solatium diphylhm. L. French, isl. Canton. Osb. 
350. 328. 
Linn.’s Sol. diph. is an American plant. But Osbeck’s plant is the 
same as S. biflbrum. Lour. S, decemdentatum. Boxb. S. OsbecTcii Dun. 
D. C. XIII. 1. 178. 179. FI. hgk. 242. 
164. Capsicum frutescens. L. Canton. Osb. 209. 
Known from India before. * 
165. Lycium barbarum. L. Honam. Osb. 16. 
Loureiro’s and probably also Osb.’s L. barb. are. L. cMnense. Mill, 
diet. 5 (1768.), which was cultivated in England as early as 1696 in the 
Boy. garden. (Hort. Kew 2. ed. II. 3). But there is much Confusion in 
system, botany with respect to L. barbarum, chinense and vulgare. Meyen, 
obsi bot. notices L. barbarum as a plant of Macao. It seems to me that 
Hook, and Arm (Yoy. Beech. 267) are perfectly right in doubting, whether 
these species are really distinct. 
166. Datura ferox- Linn, mentions it as a Chinese plant. 
It was known before him (Ph. Miller cultivated it 1731) but 
it seems from India. D. ferox is common in X. China. 
167. Wicotiaiia rustiea L. |Turkish Tobacco, universally 
smoked in China. Osb. 319. 
168. Sfieotiana fruticosa is described by Linn, and 
Miller as a Chinese plant. But as Hooker has proved (Bot. 
mag. 6207.) it is a little known plant received from Guinea, 
Brazil and the Cape of G. H. 
169. Huellla ringens. L. Danes isl. Osb. 370. 
Known from Cdylon and India before. D. C. XI. 69. Adeuosma uligiuosa. 
B. Br. Osb. is qubted with a P Hot observed, it seems after Osbeck in 
China. 
170. Gerardia glutinosa. Ij. Danes isl. Osb. 370. 
Fterostigma grandiflorum. Benth. FI. hgk. 247. Adeuosma grandifl. 
G. FI. II. y*49. 
171. Gratiola mrginiana. L. Canton. Osb. 329. 
Linn/confounded tinder this name an American and an Indian plant. 
The latter is acc. to D/ C. X. 389. Limnophila gratioloides. B. Br. After 
Osb. not observed in China. 
172. Torenia asiatica. L. French isl. Osh. 354. 337. 
It would seem from Osb.’s statement, that Toreen, after whom Linn, 
named this plant, gathered it near Canton, not in India, as Linn, states. 
It is also nob mentioned in the list of Indian plants collected by Toreen at 
Suratte. As we shall see further on, Toreen was in Canton at the same 
time when Osbeck was there. It seems however that after Osbeck T. 
asiatioa has not been observed in S. China. T. rubens and flava grow in 
Hongkong. 
173. C apraria Crustacea. Linn. China. D. C. X. 413. Van*® 
dellia Crustacea- Benth. FI. hongk. 251. 
174. JRuellia antipoda. Danes isl. Osb. 370. 
D. C. XI. 155. Bonnaya veronicaefolia. Spreng, 
