LAURUS CAMPHORA. ORD. XL. Oleracee. 683 
very fully described by Houttuyn;* also by Grimm,* Miller,‘ 
Marsden,* and others; by whom we are told it grows sometimes 
to the height of 100 feet, exceeds fifteen in circumference, and 
yields the Camphor in a native concrete state, in both these 
islands; but that of the former is accounted the best, and obtained 
more abundantly than in Sumatra. 
The Camphor is found to lodge every where in the interstices of 
the fibres of the wood, also in the pith, but most abundantly in the 
crevices and knots of this tree; which, in order to obtain the drug, 
must be cut down, its bark taken off, and the wood split. The 
larger pieces which in the Malay language are called Copalla (head), 
are first picked out from the upper part of the tree, afterwards the 
smaller, named Poeruet (belly), and lastly that which adheres to. 
the wood, and is procured by rasping, denominated Caki, or feet. 
This native Camphor, when freed from woody fibres, is con- 
sumed in the East, and sold, even to the Japanese, at a very high 
price: it does not suffer so much loss or change, on exposure to. 
the open air, as that imported from Japan, and appears in every 
respect to be a much purer and more valuable medicine.” From 
this tree oni exudes: an one or rather : s fluid, named. 
sh of: for its external use 
in Bie nines and Packing <= are tumours. 
Of the other vegetables which yield Camphor, we have already 
« See Verhandelingen door de Maatschappye d. Weetensch. te Harlem, vol. xxi. 
p- 266. sqq.tab. 8. He calls it, Laurus foliis ovalibus acuminatis lineatis, floribus 
magnis tulipaceis. 
'© Arbor Camphore. Eph. nat. cur. Dec. 2. An. 1. p- 371. fig. 33. 
€ See an account of Sumatra by Charles Miller in Phil. Trans. vol. 68. p. 169. 
8 Hist, of Sumatra. p. 121.. 
ee Rademacher i in Verhand. van het Bitavisch ‘Genootschap. d, Wetens, vol. 
2. po BRT ct 
‘ See authors —s* and Ten _— Litt, od Jac. Breynium in Prodr, p. ¥3. 
