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STYRAX BENZOIN. 



BENJAMIN TREE. 



Benzoe, 



Pharm, Lond, ^ Edinb, ex hac arbore exfudat 



moi 



STNONTMA 



Benj 



G 



a 



h He 



SS 



Arb 



B 



Grimm, in Eph 



D 



ylnn. I. p. 370. f. 



Syh 



Chifii 



Acad, Nc 



Valentim 



i/\ 



)ticis^ p, 

 Ciiriof, 



Bill 



oria 



SimpHcium^.p. 487 



B 



Radermacher in AEl. Societ, Batavi^ 



/. 44 



L 



Beujamin or B 



Marfdens Iliji, of Sunialr^y p 



3 



J. 



Laurus Benzoin. Hotittuyn in AB. Harlem, vol, xxi. p. 265. tab, 7. 



See Dr)^ander's Botanical Defcription of the Benjamin 'Tree of 

 Sumatra. Phil. Trajtf. vol. Ixxvii. _^. 307. 



Clafs Decandria. Ord. Monogynia. ' JJn. Gen. Plant. 595. 



^ff. Gen. Ch. Cal. inferus. Cor. infundibullformis. Drupa 2-fperma 



Ch 



S. foliis oblongis acuminatis fubtus tomentofi 



racemis 



compofi 



dine foliorum. Dryander. I. c. 



/ 



THIS tree is 



r' _ 



fends off many ftrong round branches, which are 



of quick growth, and rifes to a confiderable heig 



d with 



tomentofe or whitiili downy b 



ISk 



th 



e 



leaves are 



oblon"- 



d 



b' 



entire, 



J 



under downy 



tapering to a long point, on the upper furface fm 



th 



round, fcored 



ey 



ftand 



ely upon fliort footftalk 



which 



d downy : the flowers are produced in bunches 



> 



and ufually hang all on the fame fide upon fliort llender pedici 



common peduncles, are nearly of the length of the 



racemi 



J 



compound or branched, d 



T 



Wli 



y, and 



rife from the axillas of the 



at the 



leaves: the calyx is fliort, bell-fhaped, downy, and 'divided at 

 extremity into five obfcure imperfed' teeth : the corolla is monopeta 



ious 



ternally of a 



itious colour, downy, and cut into five 



obtiife 



