ASA FLO—FRA 
No, 270,—Fiores Benzorci. Flowers of Benzoin. 
Benzoic acid. See Styrax Benzoin. 
No. 271.—F ores Sutpuuris. Flowers of sulphur. 
Sublimed from Sulphur, which see. 
No. 272.—Foxia Inpica, or MALABATHRA. 
Names in commerce designating the narrow-pointed ellipti- 
cal leaves of the Laurus Cassia, as well as the oblong, 
ovate, shining leaves of the cinnamon tree. Dried and 
powdered, they are prescribed by the native doctors in 
cases requiring stimulants and cordials. s 
According to Dr. F. Hamilton, the leaves of the Laurus 
Japonica (of Rumphius) are sold in Nepaul, under the 
__ name of fej-pdt, by which also the Folia Indica are known 
to the Hindoos. The Nepaul leaves are, in taste and smell, 
‘aromatic, but differ from the tej-pat widely. 
Cassia Buds (of Laurus Cassia)—a stomachic infusion—is 
PS ae _ee in India from the cassia buds, by the Mahometan 
ees tors, with whom it is a favourite remedy. The buds 
are dark-brown, shaped somewhat like a nail with around 
head, surrounded by the hexahgular calyx, which gradu- 
ally terminates in a point. 
No. 273.—Frasera Wattenri. American Calumba 
— Marietta Calumba. 
Orricinat. Fraséri Walteri ; radix. U.S. The root of the 
American Calumba. 
Cabinet specimens, Jeff. Coll. No. 304 and No. 305—ficure 
of the plant, No. 306. an 
= For a detailed account, see W. P. C. Barton’s Veg. Mat. 
a Med. U.S. Vol. IT. , 
oe Dr. rt in noticing this plant, in a-note to his article 
on Calumba, has confounded the botanical history of the 
plant yielding the foreign Calumba, with the Frasera— 
throwing out the ion, that the former is, ‘* most 
Nye a ies of Frasera.” The fact is, the genus 
a ‘an American genus; and was named 
ay in honour of John Henry Fraser, a botanist, who has intro- 
— duced into many of our plants, and cultivated 
— ‘them there. ‘specific name, is in honour of Walter, 
who wrote is — Flora of Carolina. There is no other — 
Species; a © menispermum palmatus, which, to a cer- 
“tainty yields the foreign Calumba, is no way allied to the 
; genus. Neither are any of the plants supposed 
(during the uncertainty of the botanical history of Calum- 
ba,) to produce that root, in any manner allied to Frasera. 
