202 DR. ROXBURGH ON THE GENUS AQUILARIA. 
exactly with our plant. The inflorescence is only required to confirm their being the 
same species, or different. Of their belonging to the same genus there can be no 
doubt *. 
Cavanilles describes and gives a figure of the Garo de Malacca of Lamarck, in his 
Seventh Dissertation on the Plants of the Class Monadelphia, page 377. t. 224, under 
the name Aquilaria ovata, which is continued by Willdenow in his edition of the * Spe- : 
cies Plantarum’ of Linnæus, vol. ii. p. 629. His description differs little from that of 
Lamarck, and his figures, so far as they go, agree uncommonly well with our subject. 
I have not ventured to quote Agallochum secundarium (Rumph. Amb. ii. 34. t. 10), 
though much inclined to think they are the same. His description and figure of the 
specimens he received under the name Agallochum malaccense, so far as they go, agree as 
well with our tree as can be expected, and as well as the generality of the figures in that 
work do with the plants they are intended to represent. We must, however, suppose the 
fruit inverted in his plate; which is the more excusable, as it was not growing on, or 
naturally attached to the branch the figure is taken from, but tied to it. 
Keempfer, that most accurate writer, in his * Amoenitates Exotice,’ page 903, gives a 
figure and description of the small plant of the Agallochum tree, which with great diffi- 
culty he obtained from distant mountains, under the name S?nkoo, both of which agree 
exactly with some young plants of nearly the same size (lately sent from Goolparah by 
Dr. Buchanan, and from Silhet by Mr. Smith) now growing in this Garden, even to every 
one of the plants being uniformly divided into two little branches, which with their leaves 
have the precise appearance of Keempfer’s figure. | 
About the time that Keempfer made his voyage to Japan, our countryman, Mr. James 
Cunningham, was employed by the English East India Company on the coast of China, 
where he must have seen the fruit of this tree, which he describes so well, viz. ** turbinate, 
villous, size of a yellow Myrobalan, with a thick cortex, opening into two, and containing 
' two seeds separated by a partition, with membranaceous appendages (probably what I 
call the horn), and resting on a five-parted calyx.” Until Gærtner’s work appeared, this 
would have been reckoned a full and accurate description of the seed-vessel of my Aqui- 
laria Agallocha. — 
Loureiro's Ophispermum sinense, ‘Flora Cochinch.’ p. 944, is no doubt another spe- 
cies of the same genus, and if he, or his editor, had omitted the words “flos terminalis, 
solitarius," I should have concluded they were the same; and unreasonable as it may — 
appear, I must also remark, that I think, whoever reads with attention, and compares with 
this, his aecount of the nature and production of Aloe-wood in the * Memorias de Aca- 
-demia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, vol. i. p. 402-415, will find a striking similarity in 
, many respects, viz. size and habit of the tree; smoothness and fibrous texture of the bark, 
of which paper is made in both countries; shape, texture and appearance of the leaves ; in 
* Since writing the above, Dr. Roxburgh has received living plants, and perfect capsules with their seeds, of the 
Garo de Malacca, from Captain Farquhar, the Governor of Malacca. They are not to'be distinguished from some 
plants - the same size, and seed-vessels of his Aquilaria Agallocha, very lately sent to this Garden by Mr. Smith 
from Silhet, a proof next to positive of their being the same: for positive proof we must wait till the Malacca plants 
flower, or till specimens in flower, which Captain Farquhar has promised, are procured. 
