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also may have to put under your care a small book of Teak seeds from our West india Colonies.
I also enclose in the bag containing the Nutmeg & cloves a few seeds of this. They [indecipherable] Marsdens history & both Dr. [indecipherable] & myself think it a new species of Brucea, it is an intense bitter & its proper Malay name is Mupada Bruang. The translation of which is literally Bears gall. It is in much use as a medicine among the Natives & in the same disorder for which the other is celebrated in Alyssium.
If I may venture to hope for the honour of your future correspondence, it shall be both my pride & my pleasure to devote many hours to such enquiries as you may wish to make respecting this coast & its production.
I have the honour to be
Sir, your most obedt. Servt.
I Campbell
The Honbe. Sir Josef Banks, Bart.