EASTERN COAST ОҒ THE MALAY PENINSULA. 341 
LITSEA AMARA, Blume. 
Small tree, yellow flowers. Tulomalaty, Kwala Luit. 
L. POLYANTHA, Juss., var. ? 
Pulau Tawar, open country. Flowers yellow; leaves smaller than usual. This is 
possibly a distinct species. 
L. ZEYLANICA, ©. & Е. Nees. | 
Common оп the heath country. Pramau, Kwala Pahang. Usually a large bush. It 
is also plentiful in some spots at Changi in Singapore, and in Malacca. 
Micropora Cunmrisir Hook. 
Kwala Triang, Lubu Lanjoot, on the Pahang River. 
CASSYTHA FILIFORMIS, Linn. 
Common in the open sandy country near the sea. Pramau, Pekan, Rumpin River. 
THYMELEACES. 
WikKsTRGMIA CANDOLLEI, Hook. 
Open heathy country. Pramau, near Pekan, to the mouth of the river; also on 
Pulau Tiuman, and at Kamposa in Kelantan. 
A small tough shrub with yellow flowers and red berries. 
AQUILARIA MALACCENSIS, Lam. (Gaharu-wood.) 
This highly-prized incense-wood is collected іп the woods of the Tahan River by the 
Sakais, who sell it to the Malays. Good Gaharu-wood is very expensive, and imitations 
of it are made, by scenting other decayed woods, by the Malays, who sell it to the 
Chinese. 
Only certain trees contain the scented heart-wood, and these are known by the gnarled 
appearance of the exterior. 
Gaharu-wood is often confounded with Lign Aloes, or Eagle-wood, supposed to have been 
imported by King Solomon for the Temple. This is, however, the product of A. Agallocha, 
Roxb., which is not a native of the Malay Peninsula, so far as І am aware. Avicenna 
clearly distinguished two produets, as Garcia (* Historia Aromatum,’ i. p. 65) points out, 
under the names of Xylaloes and Agalugen. It is probable that the former of these, 
however, was Sandal-wood. Garcia himself does not distinguish the Indian and Malayan 
kinds, though he gives the native names of each kind: * Dicitur Arabibus Agalugen et 
Haud, Guzerate et Decan incolis Ud, . . . in Мааса Garro, seleetissimum autem 
Calambae." 
LORANTHACES. 
Товлктноз Lossi, Hook. f. |. 
Iobtained what I believe to be this species іп the Tahan woods, but it was only in 
young fruit, so that I cannot be quite certain. | ; 
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