Letter received by Banks from Arthur Broughton, 10 June 1793 (Series 20.14) - No. 0001

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Sir

I had the honour a few weeks since of addressing you by the Tankerville Packet and inclosing a Catalogue of the Plants which had then been collected in this neighborhood for his Majesty's Gardens at Kew.  Since that we have been enabled to add the following plants to the collection. *   I have fill'd up the void space in the Box of Seeds with the Seeds of Sapindus Saponaria, they have lately been much used here & consider'd as a sovereign remedy in chronic Rheumatism & other chronic affections of the Joints.  I own I have had no experience of their effects, but the cases related are such as I think

*  Scavola Lobelia

Piper geniculatum (Swartz)

Malphigia crassifolia

Illecebrum Achyrantha

[Illecebrum] firoideum

Evolvulus sericeus (Swartz)

Mimosa semispinosa ?

Phaseolus  Lathyroides

Suriana maritima

Sophora occidentalis

Canella alba

Lippia cymosa (Swartz)