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			East India Boxes



			From Dr. Anderson.i 1798ii

Box of plants containing the following
	       No 1	Corgupila [?] guyanensis
		2	Gustav[i]a augusta
		3	Mimosa palustris
		4	Laurus verticillata
		5	Myrtus distychaiii		Swartziv i
		6	Tamonea [?] heterophylla
		7	Croton stipulatum
		8	Roupala adiantifolia
		9	Adiantum
		10	Polypodium rhizophyllum
		11	Epidendron ophioglossum
		12			Fascifolium [?]
		13	Solanum laurifolium
		14	Justicia spinosa
		15	Ficus  hirsuta
		16		undulata
		17	Malaxis 		Swartziv
		18	Malphughia mouriliav  [there is the symbol for 'annual' here]
		19	Hypericum guyanense
		20	Laurus siperivi
		21	Myristica americana
	NB The Numbers on the Sticks front the correspond[ing] Plant

i  James Anderson (1738-1809), Scottish surgeon and botanist who spent his later years in India
ii. The date is added in pencil.
iii  disticha
iv  Swartz (1760-1818), Swedish botanist and taxonomist who collected plants in the West Indies and founded the Regnellian Herbarium. He published Flora Indiae Occidentalis in 3 vols.
iv. Malpighia Moureila
vi  The species is not found