300 ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. LaurUS. 



feet high, slender as the common Cypress, in conse- 

 quence of the branches being short, erect, and pressed 

 to the stem. The bark of the trunk, which is about as 

 thick as a man's arm, is ash-coloured ; of the round 

 young shoots a shining deep green, from it the Malays 

 obtain an essential oil by distillation ; and Dr. Fleming- 

 informs me that he has seen various specimens of it from 

 Bencoolen, and says it smelt like a mixture of sassafras 

 and cloves. 1 suppose that its medical virtues agree 

 with those of the essential oils of those substances. 

 Murray says that the inhabitants of Amboyna esteem 

 it an excellent remedy in a retention of urine, given in 

 a dose of six drops twice a day. 



Leaves for the most part perfectly opposite, short-pe- 

 tioled, refracted, broad-ovate-lanceolate, triple-nerved, 

 of a hard texture, and with a polished, deep green surface, 

 from three to five inches long, and from one to two 

 broad. Panicles terminal and axillary, shorter than the 

 leaves, brachiate, the ultimate divisions three-flowered. 

 Flowers small, white, inodorous. Bractes oblong, or lan- 

 ceolate, opposite at the divisions of the panicle. Calyx 

 to near the base, six-parted, &c. as in the other species. 

 Stamina also as in the other East Indian species. Nec- 

 tarial glands with very exactly sagittate heads. Germ 

 ovate, one-celled containing one seed, attached to the 

 top of the cell. Style of a middling length. Stigma ob- 

 scurely three- toothed. 



6. L. nitida. R. 



Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolar, obtuse, triple-nerved, 

 glossy. Panicles axillary, and below the leaves, with 

 simple, three-flowered, ramifications. Glands of the in* 

 ner filaments pedicelled. 



Cassia Coolit manees Marsden's Sumatra, p. 125. 



A native of Sumatra, from thence Dr. Charles Camp- 

 bell sect plants in 1802, to the Botanic garden at Cal- 



