Aguilarinee] THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 171 
59. AQUILARINEE. — 
This order, consisting of but few genera and species, and these found chiefly in the 
Indo-chinese territories, hardly admits of notice in the present work, though one species 
extends northwards as far as the forests of Silhet, were it not for the opportunity of 
publishing.a drawing of Dr. Hamilton’s, from the*collection of the East-India Company, 
of the tree which yields one at least of the kinds of Agallochum of the ancients... This 
has long been traced to India, Malacca, Siam, and Cochin-china. Loureiro is confident 
that all the kinds of true aloes-wood, especially the most valuable, called Calambac, 
was produced by his Aloexylum Agallochum, which he places in the Linnean class and 
order, Decandria Monogynia, and. which De Candolle refers to the natural. family of 
Leguminosé. This tree grows in the lofty mountains of Cochin-china, called Cham- 
pava, in 13° of N. latitude, near the great river Lavum (Mei-kong ?). which flows 
between Cochin-china and -the Laos. From the positive testimony of Loureiro, as 
well as from the information obtained from the Siamese by my late friend, Mr. Fin- 
layson, when at ,Chantibond, that the Calambac and Agila-wood were produced by 
totally different trees, it is more than probable that the Aloerylum of Loureiro produces 
one, perhaps the most valuable, kind of Agallochum. But it is remarkable, that in 
both trees, the fragrance.is asserted\to ‘be the.effect of disease; but as Mr. Finlayson 
says, ‘‘ the opinion may well be called in question,” especially, as in examining the 
structure of sound agila-wood under the microscope, the cells may be observed filled 
with the fragrant resinous secretion. Lxcecaria Agallochum, of the natural order of 
Euphorbiace@, is another tree, which, on the authority of Rumphius, is said to pro- 
duce a kind of aloes-wood. M. Fée, who has seen a genuine specimen of the wood 
of this tree, states that its fragrance cannot be compared with that of the Agallo- 
chum of Loureiro, which, moreover, does not present on its transverse section, the 
mouths of the ducts which are so conspicuous in the wood of Exceécaria. 
A third kind of Agallochum or aloes-wood, and that which is the best known has long 
been imported by Europeans from Malacca and the kingdom of Siam. Of this, no 
doubt, the Malay name agila, has given origin to the terms aquila and eagle-wood, 
particularly as the Portuguese, the first direct. importers, -called. it pao-dagila. The 
Sanscrit name agura is very similar to the Malayan, and has been converted in India 
into aggur, ugoor, and uggur. The Arabic names are said to vary from agalugen and 
ayaloogi to ulfakh and unjugion. In Persian works on Materia Medica, three kinds are 
described under the names of, 1, Aod-i-sumooduree. 2. Aod-i-hindee. 3. Aod-i-chinee, 
In the bazars, in making a collection of the articles of the Indian Materia Medica, 
I obtained three kinds. 1. Aod-i-hindee. 2. A kind obtained by commerce from Surat, 
which, however, does not appear to differ essentially from the third kind, Aod-i-kimaree. 
This is probably the A/-cemericum (this word differing only in having the Arabic article 
as a prefix) mentioned by Aboo-Hanifa, as quoted by Serapion in Mathiolus (Comment. 
in Diosc.) and which has probably been derived from the name of some place, as we 
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