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article from it, and to bring it to public notice. He made 

 more than a hundred pounds, and the specimens which he 

 sent to Calcutta were reported : " In its refined form, it 

 is identical in all its properties with Chinese camphor." 



The plant is so abundant, that these Provinces might 

 supply half the world with camphor. Wherever the trees 

 are cut down, this weed springs up, and often to the ex- 

 clusion of almost every thing else ; so that an old clearing 

 looks like a field under cultivation. 



Mr. O'Riley sent flowering specimens of the plant to Dr. 

 M'Clelland for identification, who forwarded them to Dr. 

 Voigt of Serampore, and subsequently reported: " Dr. Voigt 

 states that it belongs to De Candolle's genus Blumea, and 

 is so far as he can see, a new species." It is without 

 doubt the same plant as that which appeared in Wallich's 

 Catalogue a quarter of a century ago, as Conyza grandis, 

 and which De Candolle subsequently described as Blumea 

 grandis. Wallich's specimens were from Tavoy, without 

 flowers, and DeCandolle describes the leaf as nine inches 

 long with the petiole, by three wide, (" cum pctiolo 9 poll, 

 longa, 3 poll, lata,) serrated, and bearing on the petiole 

 live or six remote linear acute lobes, (" pctiolo lobulos 

 5 — 6 distantcs lincarcs acu'&s gcrcrrfibus,) which corres- 

 ponds very accurately with some specimens of our cam- 

 phor plant, but it does not correspond to any other species 

 of Blumea in the Provinces with which I am acquainted. 

 Blumea grandis. 

 y<S^c8'Sii o2co<5oqj6nqij<Si' {Tavoy.) 



u<T)£'i Camphor coo^u {Pali) G])?-' y9J. 



Dr. Royle, in a valuable article on gum kino, ostensi- 

 bly enumerates all the various regions from which it has 

 been imported into England ; but does not mention it as 

 being a product of the Tenasserim Coast. Yet long before 

 Dr. Royle compiled that communication, more than one 



• Extracted from an article communicated bv the author, in the Journal of the 



Astatic Society for August 1S4S. 



