204 ORD. XVI. Bicornes. 
STYRAX BENZOIN. BENJAMIN TREE. 
Benzoé. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. ex hac arbore exsudat. 
SYNONYMA. Benjui. Garcias ab Horto in Clusti Exoticis, p. 
155. Arbor Benzoini. Grimm. in Ephemer. Acad. Nat. 
~ Curios. Dec. 2. Ann. I. p. 370. fig. 31.  Sylvius in Valentini 
Historia Simplicium, p. 487. 
Benzuin. Radermacher in-Act. Societ. Batavic, vol. iti. p. 44. 
Benjamin or Benzoin. Marsden’s Hist. of Sumatra, p. 123. 
Laurus Benzoin. Houituyn in Act. Harlem. vol. xxi. p. 265. tab. 7. 
See Dryander’s Botanical Description of the Benjamin Tree 
of Sumatra. Phil. Trans. vol. lexvii. p. 307. 
Sp. Ch. S. foliis oblongis acuminatis subtus tomentosis, racemis 
compositis longitudine foliorum. Dryander. l. c. 
THIS tree is of quick growth, and rises to a considerable height: 
it sends off many strong round branches, which are covered with a 
tomentose or whitish downy bark: the leaves are oblong, entire, 
veined, tapering to a long point, on the upper surface smooth, on 
the under downy; they stand alternately upon short footstalks, 
which are round, scored, and downy: the flowers are produced in — 
bunches, and usually hang all on the same side upon short slender 
_ pedicles: the racemi, or common peduncles, are nearly of the 
length of the leaves, compound or branched, downy, and arise from 
the axilla of the leaves: the calyx is-short, bell-shaped, downy, 
and divided at the extremity into five obscure imperfect teeth: 
the corolla is monopetalous, externally of a cineritious colour, — 
downy, and cut into five obtuse parallel segments growing close 
