Hardwickia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, A423 
Pers. Ayaloor-chee, Oud, or-Oud Hindee, 
Eng. Agallochum, or Aloe wood. 
An immense tree, a native of the mountainous tracts 
East and South East from Silhet, in about the latitude 
of twenty-four and twenty-five north. Flowering time 
the month of April ; the seed ripens in August, 
There can be little, or no doubt, that this is the tree 
which furnishes the real Calambac, or Agallochum of 
‘the ancients, and there seems more reason to think 
that it was carried to China from our eastern fron- 
tier, than to suppose it was carried from Cochin China, 
or any other country in the vicinity of China, where it 
 has.always been in greatdemand, Small quantities are 
‘Sometimes imported into Calcutta by sea, from the east- 
ward ; but such is always deemed inferior to that of 
Silhet. Thriving plants of the Goro de Malacca re- 
ceived from that place, are now in the Botanic. garden 
and so exactly like plants of the same age and size of 
our species, that they cannot be distinguished. But 
for proof positive of their being the same, we must wait 
‘till the Malacca plants blossom, and ripen their fruit, or 
till good specimens that can be depended on, in those 
states are obtained (and they are promised ;) till then we 
may be allowed to consider A. ovata, Willd, 2. 629. as 
another species of the same genus, 
HARDWICKIA. R 
Calyx none. Corol from four to fiye-petalled. Legume 
capsular, one-seeded. 
1. H. binata. R. 
Leaves binate ; leaflets semicordate. 
Tam. Acha, alti-marum. 
This elegant tree is found indigenous on the moun- 
tains of the coast of Coromandel, where it — a 
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