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Pers' Ayaloor-chce, Oud, or Oud Hindee. 



Eng. Aoaliochura, or Aloe wood. 



An immense tree, a native of the mountainous tracts 

 East and South East from Silhet, in about the latitude 

 of twenty-four and twenty-five north. Flowering time 

 the month of April ; the seed ripens in August. 



There can be little, or no doubt, that this is the tree 

 which furnishes the real Calarabac, or Agallochum of 

 the ancients, and there seems more reason to think 

 that it was carried to China from our eastern fron- 

 tier, than to suppose it was carried from Cochin China, 

 or any other country in the vicinity of China, where it 

 has always beeh in great demand. Small quantities are 

 sometimes imported into Calcutta by sea, from the east- 

 ward ; but such is always deemed inferior to that of 

 Silhet. Thriving plants of the Goro de Malacca re- 

 ceived from that place, are now in the Botanic garden 

 and so exactly like plants of the same age and size of 

 our species, that they cannot be distinguished. But 

 for proof positive of their being the same, we must wait 

 till the Malacca plants blossom, and ripen their fruit, or 

 till good specimens that can be depended on, in those 

 states are obtained (and they are promised ;) till then we 

 may be allowed to consider A. ovata. Willd. 2. 629. as 

 another species of the same genus. 



HARDWICKIA. R. 



Calyx none. Corol from four to five-petalled. Legume 

 capsular, one-seeded. 



1. H. hinata. R. 



Leaves Wuvxte ; leaflets semioordate. 

 Turn. Acha, alti-marum. 



This elegant tree is found indigenous on the moun- 

 tains of the coast of Coromandel, where it grows to a 



