282 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



called ligu-alops is offered for sale in all the Bazaars 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. 



" Gesenius says the Hebrew and Greek names are ' derived from the Indian name 

 of the tree, a;iih Sanskrit agaru and aynru.^ Had he read Pali, he would have been 

 able to approaeli the word nearer than he has done through tlie Sanscrit, for there, 

 besides aciaru, the Sanskrit word, we have again and aggalu, which comes sufficiently 

 near tlie ' Indian name agil,^ and the Greek agallochon, but it would take a pretty 

 thorough etymologist to get aloe, the New Testament word, out of any of them. 

 There is, however^ another Sanscrit and Tali word, with which Gesenius does not 

 appear to have mot, laulia. This is manifestly the parent of aloe, and by trans- 

 position, not uncommon in Hebrew, of the Hebrew name also. Although rendered 

 ' aloes ' in the English version, no two plants are more dissimilar than this and the 

 common aloes " — that is lign-aloes and socotrine, or bitter-aloes. 



A. M.a,ACCENSis, Lamk. I^.T. Tenasserim. 



Capsules smooth and glabrous. 



LAURALES. 



Flowers usually unisexual. Perianth green or coloured usually regular. Oeitr>i 

 superior (inferior in G yroearpeae) 1-ceUed. Stigma 1. Ovule solitary. Embrgo straight, 

 albuminous or not. 



Order LAUEINEiE. 



Perianth regular, tlie tube very short, or none at the time of flowering, sometimes 

 enlarged over or under the fruit, or rarely adnate to the ovary and fruit, segments 6 or 

 rarely fewer, imbricate. Stamens nominally twice as many as periantli-segmcnts, 

 but sometimes reduced to 3, or irregularly increased in number, all fertile or a certain 

 number reduced to staminodes, or sessile, or stalked glands. Anthers adnate with 

 2 colhiteral or supeqiosed pairs of cells, each cell opening in a valve from the base 

 upwards, or (in Ilernandia) from the inner to the outer side. Ovarg free or (in 

 Hernnndia) adnate, 1 -celled with a solitary ovule suspended fi'om the apex of the 

 cavity, from a funiclc adnate to its side, or rarely with a second abortive ovule. 

 Sti/Ie simple, often very short. Stigma capitate or dilated, entire or lobed. Fruit 

 a berry or drupe, rarely dry or nearly so, the perianth is entirely deciduous or the 

 tube enlarged and dry, or fleshy, supporting or inclosing the fruit. Seed pendulous, 

 •without albumen. Emlryo with thick fleshy cotyledons filling the seed and inclosing 

 the plumule and short superior radicle. Trees or shrubs, rarely leafless twiners. 

 Leaves usually alternate simple. Stipules none. Flowers usually small, the in- 

 florescence various. 



Sub-order LA TJRINEM vera. 

 * Anther-cell opening by uptvard-twning ralres. 

 -f Flowers in nahed inflorescences, not surrounded Ig a proper involucre or imbricate 

 bracts. 



X Anthers A-celled, fruit superior, free, not inclosed in the jjericarp. 



CiNNAMOMUM, BurmanH. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-segments breaking off at their middle, leaving 

 a persistent 6-lobcd cup or disk under the fruit. Ovarg inserted iu the centre of the 

 funnel-shaped perianth receptacle, 1 -celled, with a soUtaiy pendulous ovule. Trees 

 or shrubs usually aromatic. 



