682 ORD. XL. Oleracee. LAURUS CAMPHORA. 
THIS tree grows to a considerable height, dividing into many 
branches, covered with smooth greenish bark: the leaves are ovate, 
lance-shaped, entire, smooth, nerved, on the upper side of a pale 
yellowish green colour, on the under glaucous, and stand upon 
long footstalks: the flowers are small, white, standing upon short 
pedicles, terminating the common peduncles, which are long, 
naked, erect, and proceed from the alz of the leaves: there is no 
calyx: the corolla is composed of six small ovate concave unequal 
petals: the nectarium consists of three tubercles, terminating in 
bristly points, surrounding the germen: the filaments are nine, 
shorter than the corolla, and furnished with round anthere: the 
inner filaments are supp at the base with two round glands: 
. : simple, , about the length of 
the filaments, and verfitoeted by an obtuse stigma: the fruit 
resembles that of the Cinnamon. 
' This tree is a native of Japan, growing abundantly in the woods 
of the western part of the island. It was first cultivated in Britain 
by Miller,* and by being easily propagated it is now a common 
green-house plant in this country, where, though it often seems 
sufficiently luxuriant and healthy, it very rarely produces flowers: 
so that for the annexed figure we are obliged to Dr. Smith, who 
supplied us with a specimen from his Herbarium. 
Although this is the tree from which Camphor is chiefly pe 
tained, and from which all Europe is supplied with this drug, 
many other vegetables however are well known to afford a iGecilar 
‘substance ; of These, that most worthy of notice is a large tree, 
indigenous to the-islands of Borneo and Sumatra, which, though 
a different genus, somewhat resembles that of the Laurus,* and is 
* Aiton. Hort. Kew. 
> Murray, App. Med. vol. iv. p, 446. 
* We have seen the fruit of this tree, (in the possession of Dr. Smith) which has 
not the least affinity to that of any-of the genus Laurus, 
