172 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF [Aquilarinee: 
learn from Malte Brun, that ‘“ on the frontier of Pegu, there is said to be a considerable 
town, called Cambouri (in other works, probably, the same place is called Kamar) the 
seat of a great commerce in eagle-wood, ivory, and rhinoceros’ horns, and_ from this 
comes the finest varnish.” (Zod. Trav., Birmah and Siam, p-300.) In Persian works, 
it is stated, that the Greek name, more particularly applied to aod-i-kimaree, of this 
incense-wood, aod-i-bukhoor is agallokhé, which is no doubt intended for the aryorAony ov 
of Diosc. 1. c. 21. 3 
Having ascertained the native names, and the article now in use, to which the trans- 
lators into Arabic applied the Greek name, it remains to identify the tree which produces 
the Malayan and Indian Agallochum. M. Sonnerat, in his second voyage to India, 
obtained specimens of a tree which was supposed to afford the true Bois dAigl. Of 
this he presented a branch to Lamarck without fructification, but accompanied by a 
small drawing of the flower and fruit, which are those probably figured at T. 376 of the 
Illustrations, and from which most probably the generic character was drawn up. This, 
M. Lamarck, under the description of Bois d’ Aloes, Agallochum officinarum. Bauh. Pin. 
393, says has great resemblance to the Agallochum secundarium of*Rumphius, Hort. 
Amb. 2, t. 10, as well as to the Sinkoo of Kempfer, 903, and has called it Garo de 
Malacca, Aquilaria Malaccensis. A. ovata Cav. diss. 7, p. 877, t. 224. 
Dr. Roxburgh, in describing his Aguilaria Agallocha, states, that it is an immense 
tree, a native of the mountainous parts east and south of Silhet, in about the latitude of 
24 “to 25° N., which flowers in April, and ripens its seed in August, and that it affords 
the real Calambac or Agallochum of the ancients ; adding, there seems more reason to 
conclude that it was carried to China from our eastern frontier, than to suppose it was 
carried from Cochin-china, where it was always in great demand. Small quantities 
are sometimes imported into Calcutta by Siam from the eastward ; but such is always 
deemed inferior to that of Silhet. From Aboo-Hanifa, it is also stated, /. c. “ Agallochum 
verum India mittit preestantissimum.” Thriving plants, Dr. Roxburgh further states, 
‘of the Garo de Malacca, received 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 as the Malacca plant had not then flowered, Dr. Roxburgh was 
unable to determine whether they corresponded in every respect; until then, he 
says, we may be allowed to consider the above A. ovata as another species of the 
genus. 
Dr. Buchanan Hamilton, in his investigation of the eastern frontier of Bengal, also 
“met with this plant near Goalpara, v. Wall. Cat. 7,250. c., which he considered to be 
the Agallochum officinarum, as this name is affixed both to his specimens and drawing. 
Dr.Wallich also obtained specimens of the same tree from Silhet, by means of his plant 
collectors, y. Cat. 7,250. a.; and I am informed by Dr. Lindley, that he also’ was deci- 
dedly of opinion, that it produces the eagle or aloe-wood of commerce, an opinion of 
the more value, as Dr.Wallich had opportunities of visiting the countries eastward of 
Bengal. The specimens of this plant having been distributed to different botanists 
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