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alternate, rather long-petioled, ovate, acute, often acuminate 
and varying in breadth, about three inches long, entire, with 
somewhat revolute edges, smooth, glaucous beneath, nerves 
lateral and irregularly alternate. Petioles round, an inch 
long. Peduncles from the young shoots at the extremity of 
the branches, axillary or lateral, terminated by a short, few- 
flowered panicle, and generally longer than the young leaves 
from whose axils they spring. Bracts none. Perianth 
funnel-shaped, 6-parted, yellowish. Stamens 9, arranged in 
two rows, the outer six naked, the inner three furnished at the 
base with two yellow glands: filaments flat: anthers adnate, 
the cells opening with a longitudinal valve or operculum. 
Style as long as the stamens. Stigma obtuse, 4-cornered. 
Drupe seated on the enlarged cup-shaped persistent truncated _ 
base of the perianth, globose, containing a l-seeded nut. 
Embryo inverse. Cotyledons hemispherical. Radicle superior, 
within the edge of the cotyledons. 
Oss. This species has considerable affinity to L. cupularia. 
The fruit has a strong balsamic smell, and yields an oil, 
which is considered useful in rheumatic affections, and has 
the same balsamic odour as the fruit itself. An infusion of 
the root is drunk in the same manner as Sassafras, which it 
appears to resemble in its qualities. The wood is strong and 
durable when not exposed to wet, and in that case considered 
equal to Teak. Kayo Gadis signifies the Vi vy Tree, whence 
the specific name. 
May this not be the Oriental Sassafras Woody mentioned 
under the article Laurus in Rees’ Capian 
GOMPHIA * SUMATRANA. W. J. 
Decanpria Monoeynis. Nat. Ord. OcHNAcEs. 
Foliis lanceolatis vel oblongo-ovalibus acuminatis obtuse 
denticulatis nitidis sub 5-nerviis, stipulis intrapetiolaribus 
-deciduis, paniculis terminalibus. 
* 
* * I strongly suspect that the plant which I have described in Roxburgh's 
Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 305, under the name of Euthemis elegantissima, is a species of 
Gomphia. Can it be possibly the luxuriant shoots of Jack's species? Its leaves 
are, without exception, the most beautiful I have ever met with. "—XN. W., 1830. 
