lo£ BOTANY. 



ALL-SPICE ? 



On the sides of some of the highest mountains in the 

 province of Tavoy, I have repeatedly met with a tree, 

 but never saw it either in fruit or flower, which the Bur- 

 mese call " wild clove tree." The young branches and 

 the leaves taste very strongly of all-spice. 

 Eugenia. ( Pimento?-) 

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NUTMEG TREE. 



Within a dozen years, the culture of the nutmeg tree 

 has been sucessfullv commenced both at Mergui and 

 Maulmain. There are two or three large nurseries be- 

 longing to natives behind the hill at Maulmain, where the 

 trees appear to thrive; and there is a plantation contain- 

 ing some thousands of trees at Mergui belonging to Baron 

 des Granges, where the trees were beginning to bear 

 several years ago : but the nutmegs can be imported from 

 Penang cheaper than they can be sold at a remunerative 

 price in these Provinces, so there is little prospect of the 

 sj^ice plantation increasing. 



Myristica moschata. 



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MACE. 



Mace, which is the aril of the nutmeg, appears to have 

 been originally regarded by the natives as its flower, for 

 its Burman name signifies " nutmeg flower. 1 



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LIGN-ALOES. 



The fragrant substance called lign-aloes, or wood-aloes, 

 is offered for sale in all the bazars on the Coast, and 

 is the produce of a tree that grows on the Mergui Islands. 

 It is imported into Mergui by the Selungs, who, as they 

 profit from the trade, endeavour to keep all in ignorance 

 of the tree from which they obtain it. 



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