300 ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Laurus. 
feet high, slender as the common Cypress, in conse- 
quence of the branches being short, erect, and pressed 
to the stem. The bark of the trunk, which is about as 
thick as a man’s arm, is ash-coloured; of the round 
young shoots a shining deep green, from it the Malays 
obtain an essential oil by distillation ; and Dr. Fleming 
informs me that he has seen various specimens of it from 
Bencoolen, and says it smelt like a mixture of sassafras 
and cloves. 1 suppose that its medical virtues agree 
with those of the essential oils of those substances. 
‘Murray says that the inhabitants of Amboyna esteem 
it an excellent remedy in a retention of urine, piven in 
a dose of six drops twice a day. 
Leaves for the most part perfectly opposite, shore 
tioled, refracted, broad-ovate-lanceolate, triple-nerved, — 
of a hard texture, and with a polished, deep green surface, 
from three to five inches long, and from one to tw0 
broad. Panicles terminal and axillary, shorter than the 
leaves, brachiate, the ultimate divisions three-flowered- 
Flowers small, white, inodorous, Bractes oblong, or lan- 
ceolate, opposite at the divisions of the panicle. Caly* 
to near the base, six-parted, &c. as in the other species: 
Stamina also as in the other East Indian species. Nec- 
tarial glands with very exactly sagittate heads. Germ 
_ ovate, one-celled containing one seed, attached to the 
top of the cell. Style of a middling length. Stigma of 
scurely three-toothed, 
6. L, nitida, R. 
Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolar, obtuse, aie 
glossy.  Panicles axillary, and below the leaves, with 
simple, three-flowered, ramifications. Glands of the in- 
ner filaments pedicelled. 
Cassia Coolit manees Marsden’s Sumatra, p. 125. 
A native of Sumatra, from thence Dr. Charles Camp- 
bell sent plants in 1802, to the Botanic garden at Cal- 
