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LAURUS CAMPHORA. CAMPHOR-TREE 
Arbor ex qua obtinetur Camphor A, Pharm,.Lond. & Ed* 
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SYN NY MA. Camphora officinarum. Bauh. Pin. p. 500 
Park. Tbeat. p. 1575. Laurus camphorifera Japon. vulgo Ku 
noki. Ktempfcr Am<xn. exot. p. 770. Arbor camphorifera Japo 
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nica. Breyn. exot b plant . cent. p. 11- Prod. p. 7. et icon, rarior. 
, 16. Rail Hifl. p. 1679. Arbor camphorifera Japonica, foliis 
laurinis, fructu parvo globofo, calyce breviffimo. Commel. Hort. 
Jlmftel. torn. i. p. 189. tab. 95. Conf. Thumb. Fl. Japon. p. 178. 
Trezv. in Nov. ac~i. nat. cur. torn. ii. A pp. p. 358. •& ' Burni. Fl. hid. 
p. $2. & Flor. Cap. Prodr. p. 12,, 
Glafs Enneandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 503. 
JEJf. Gen. Cb. Cor. calycina, 6-partita. Nec7arium glandulis 3, bifetis, 
germen cingentibus. Filamenta interiora glandulifera 
Drupa i-fperma. 
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CB. L. foliis triplinerviis lanceolato-ovatis. 
THIS tree grows to a confiderable height, dividing into many 
branches, covered with fmooth greenifh bark: the leaves are ovate, 
lance-maped, entire, fmooth, nerved, on the upper fide of a pale 
yellowifh green colour, on the under glaucous, and ffand upon long; 
footftalks : the flowers are fmall, white, Handing upon fhort pedicles 
terminating the common peduncles, which are long, naked, erecl 
and proceed from the alas of the leaves : there is no calvx : th< 
orolla is compofed of fix fmall ovate concave unequal petals : the 
ne&ariurn 
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