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Lady Bute i sent to Kew in 1798 two Spanish Books vizt ii  Casimiri Gosmezii Ortegaeiii Novarum aut rariorum plantarum Horti regii Botanici. Matrit: Descriptionorum decades, cum nonnullarum iconibusiv containing the following plants vizt the 2[?] Elenchus plantarum Hortii regii Mat.Bot.Matrit. anno 1796v from which Catalogues the 2[?] List is made from & sent to Her Ladyship to beg seeds of for His Majestys Collection at Kew.
Justicia parviflora
Verbena grandiflora
Salvia virgata
            amarissima
Calyxhymenia glabrifolia    fig 1
Lithospermum vesychumvi
Ipom[o]ea heterophylla
Ipom[o]ea verrucosa
Datura ceratocaula
Solanum cymosum
Agave scabra
Gaura h[et]erandra
Larrea glauca
Cuphea procumbens     fig 2
Euphorbia paniculata
Teucrium veronicifolium
Stachys coccinea
Maurandya semperflorens
Crotalaria paniculata
Phaseolus angulosus
                  gibbosifolius
Robinia pendula
Aeschynomene miniate
Da[h]lia acutifolia
              bidentifolia      fig3
Trifolium involucratum
Eupatorium canescens
                   lucidum
Ageratum viscosum
                 punctatum
                 pedatum
Pascalia glauca           fig 4

i Stuart, Charlotte Jane; 1746-05-07-1800-01-20; 1st wife of 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute. The Marquess of Bute was the British ambassador to Spain in 1783.
 ii VIzt is used to mean 'namely or 'as follows'. It is an abbreviation of videlicet, a contraction of videre licet, [Latin: it is permitted to see}. 
iii G�mez Ortega, Casimiro (1741-1818), Spanish physician, botanist and first Professor of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. VIAF ID 29669730 
iv Novarum aut rariorum plantarum Horti Reg[ii] Botan[ici] Matrit[ensis] descriptionum decades cum nonnullarum iconibus . (1797) by G�mez Ortega, Casimiro. Madrid. [Tr: Of new or rare plants of the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid. Descriptions with several icons] 
v Elenchus Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Matritensis. Anno MDCCXCVI (1796) by G�mez Ortega, Casimiro, Madrid. [Tr: The list of plants of the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid.  
vi Possibly Lithospermum vesicarium