2 Sir J. E. Suirn on the Lignum Rhodium 
call it the Oriental Plane-tree. The leaves being rubbed have a 
fine balsamic smell, with an orange flavour. It produces an ex- 
cellent white turpentine; especially when any incisions are made 
in the bark. I suppose it is from this that they extract a very 
fine perfumed oil, which, they say, as well as the wood, has the 
virtue of fortifying the heart and brain. The common people 
here cut off the bark and wood together, toast it in the fire, and 
suck it, which they esteem a specific remedy in a fever, and seem 
to think that it has a miraculous operation." 
' So far Dr. Pococke, who in the 2d part of the same vol. p. 188, 
mentions this tree again, and, in plate 89, gives a tolerable, but 
not precisely botanical figure of it. ‘This plate is cited by Will- 
denow, Sp. Pl. vol. 4. 475, asa representation of the Liquidambar 
imberbe, Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 1. vol. 3. 365. That author perceiving 
it to be no Platanus, but rather a Liquidambar, reasonably enough 
concluded it to represent the Oriental, rather than the American, 
species of that genus. The figure, though drawn and engraved 
by Ehret, is not sufficiently accurate to determine so nice a point. 
As it does not show the hairiness about the veins of the leaves, 
which distinguishes the occidental Liquidambar from the oriental, 
Willdenow is the more excusable; though the outline of the foli- 
age agrees best with the former. 
Dr. Sibthorp, in his visit to Cyprus, was anxious to ascertain 
the tree mentioned by Pococke, and the result of his inquiry 
cannot be better related than in the words of his manuscript 
journal. 
* April 19, 1785, at eight in the morning we left Upreva, and, 
passing through the vales below, gradually ascended the moun- 
tains of Antiphoniti. At noon we arrived at the convent, most 
romantically situated among the mountains, with a view of the 
sea, and a distant sight of the mountains of Caramania. I was 
come 
