The letter of 26 February 1762{L3037} is acknowledged, with thanks for the seeds enclosed. Nicolaus Joseph Jacquin can send specimens only of Nissolia, since the others have no leaves just now.
Laurus cinnamomus was sent by Jacquin from Martinique to Vienna in 1756 as two small trees. They survived until the winter of 1761/62; in Martinique, they form forests. The species is carefully described, and comparative reference is made to descriptions of other varieties described in Hort. Mal. (Jacquin refers to Horti Malabarici pars prima [-duodecima & ultima]) and by Linnaeus. Also the smells are accounted for: the root smells of camphor, the interior cortex is similar to real cinnamon, just as the leaves. Also a dry leaf kept for seven years in a herbarium smells of cinnamon.
A couple of attributions by Pehr Löfling are commented upon, as is the fact that Chaetea looks very dissimilar in Jacquin’s warm greenhouse from what it is in its natural location.
Among a considerable number of various small notations, some of which are answers to comments in Linnaeus’s latest letter, Jacquin comments on Valeriana elongata, Heracleum angustifolium and Bactris, which he regards as a new species. – He asks for help from Linnaeus to decide on a Mimosahe has depicted in one of the copperplates.
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli has given Jacquin specimens of insects to be forwarded to Linnaeus. They will be sent to Johan Frederik Gronovius in a couple of weeks together with some plant material and from there forwarded to Linnaeus.
A list of 125 illustrations of the work on American plants concludes the letter.