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Melastoma  ?i trinervia      1793  Nat[ive] Jamaica.        Three Nasrod? melastoma this is thought a bad English Name to be found Swartz.ii Fgiii

Melastoma [illeg] 1793. by the providence . FL is sent Eng. N.
         ? hirta                                                
                              Shaggy plantain leaved Melastoma Mill[er's] dict[ionary]]iv 17 coll[ection] Year? Introd[uced] to Kew . by the providince


     ?discolored melastoma 1793 .  discolbard? melastoma providence
     ?seabrasa.              1733.     D[octo]r Houstonv Mill[er's] dict[ionary] is Rough leaved a [illeg]? Name .
  ?     ? Malabathricavi  .    1792 . Mill[er's] dict[ionary] [illeg]vii
N.B		                     1795  Sir George Stauntonviii
~			          1793  Donnix this last date agrees with no Introducer.  Donn supposes it to be brought home by Sir George Staunton which was the case but [illeg] Sir George was in China 1793 & did not return [un]till Oct [ober]1794 & the seeds of this Embassy? were not sown [un]till 1795 ~  fl.x  [Aug]t ~ Sept.[embe]r & Oct[obe]r

     ? rubra                   1793.  Nat.[ive] of Sumoa.      Anderson fl.xi  by the providence
     ? grossularoides.     1793.  Nat.[ive] Jamaica.
     ? hirsuta                 1793.   flowered at Kew June 1795.  Dry [illeg] English name wanted
                   
 M.?    laevigata  .
         [illeg].                   Purra leos?  sp[.]xii
     ? cymose?              what is this sp[.]xiii
         sp.xiv                     China     S.[ir] G.[eorge] Staunton a spxv[.] desp[atched]? ~ from Malabar
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i Ticks on this page are all in pencil.
ii Olof or Olava Swartz 1760-09-21-1818-09-19 was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist.
iii Possibly short for Field grown
iv Miller's Dictionary: full title The Gardeners' Dictionary by Philip Miller 1691-1771-12-18 
v William Houstoun (occasionally spelt Houston) 1695?-1733 was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who collected plants in the West Indies, Mexico  and South America.
vi Possibly Malabathris
vii Possible symbol for 'received'
viii Sir George Leonard Staunton, 1st Baronet 1737-4-10-1801-01-14 was an employee of the East India Company and a botanist.
ix James Donn 1758-1813 was an English botanist and gardener. His most important work was Hortus Cantabrigiensis was first published in 1796 but with several later, much expanded, editions.

x Possibly meaning in full flower
xi Possibly meaning in full flower
xii Possibly short for specimen or species
xiii Possibly short for specimen or species
xiv Possibly short for specimen or species
xv Possibly short for specimen or species