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neaariufn confifts of three tubercles, terminating in briflly points, 
furrounding the germen : the filaments are nine, fhortcr than the 
corolla, and 'jrnifhed with round antherae : the inner filaments are 
fupplied at the bale with two round glands : the germen is roundifh : 
the ftyle is fimple, about the length of the filaments, and terminated 
by an obtufe ftigma : the fruit refembles that of the Cinnamon. 
(See Plate 27.) 
This tree is a native of Japan, growing abundantly in the woods 
of the weltern part of the ifland. It was firft cultivated in Britain 
by Miller, 3 and by being eafily propagated it is now a common green- 
houfe plant in this country, where, though it often feems fufficiently 
luxuriant and healthy, it very rarely produces flowers : fo that for the 
annexed fipure we are obliged to Dr. Smith who fupplied us with a 
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iecimen from his Herbarium. 
Although this is the tree from which Camphor is chiefly obtained, 
and from which all Europe is fupplied with this drug, b many other 
vegetables however are well known to afford a fnnilar fubftance ; of 
thefe, that mod worthy of notice is a large tree, indigenous to the 
illands of Borneo and Sumatra, which, though a different genus, 
fomewhat refembles that of the Laurus, c arra is very fully defcribed 
by Houttuyn ; d alfo by Grimm, e Miller/ Marfden, 2 and others ; by 
whom we are told it grows fometimes to the height of 100 feet, exceeds 
fifteen in circumference, and yields the Camphor in a native concrete 
ftate, in both thefe ifiands ; but. that of the former is accounted the 
belt, and obtained more abundantly than in Sumatra. 
* Alton. Hort. Kew. *» Murray ^ App. Med. vol. iv. p. 446. 
c We have ken the fruit of this tree, (in the poileiTion of Dr. Smith) which has not 
. the leaft affinity to that of any of the genus Laurus. 
d See Verhandelhi gen door de Maatfchappye d. JVeetenfch. te Harlem^ vol. xxt. p. 266. 
Jqq. tab.B. He calls it, Laurus foiiis ovalibus acuminatis lineatis, floribus magnis 
tulipaceis. 
* 
« Arbor Camphone. Epb. nat. cur. Dec. 2. An. 1. />. 371. fig. 33- 
Sumatra by Charles Miller in Phil Tranf. vol. 68. />. 169 
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Hi/f. of Sumatra, p. 12 J. 
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