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The Olea glandulifera is a stout, tall tree, with white flowers and 
small black fruit. The bark is of a greyish colour, with whitish 
specks, about 2 of an inch in thickness, breaking with a close granu- 
lated fracture, inner surface brown. 
The Litsea Zeylanica is a moderate-sized tree, with yellowish-white 
flowers and black fruit; the leaves are ribbed and whitish on the 
under surface. The bark is gray and covered with lichens, smooth, 
2 of an inch thick, fracture close, showing white, glistening fibres 
running through the red substance of the middle and inner layers, 
brown and smooth internally, The bark gives off a fragrant odour 
when burning. 
The JHiptage Madablota is a woody climber, reaching to the top 
of trees over 100 feet high. The stems are from half to three- 
quarters of an inch in thickness, and covered with a thin, smooth, 
reddish-brown bark enclosing a yellowish wood. 
The Jasminum flezile is also a climber. The stems are about one 
inch in diameter, very woody and knotted, covered with a light 
yellowish-brown papery bark, exfoliating on the surface. 
The Ligustrum Roxburghit is a stout tree about 50 feet in height, 
The bark is coloured russet-brown, and is a quarter of an inch or 
more in thickness; fracture close, showing thick white fibres running 
through the brown middle and inner layers. 
The Litsea Wightiana is similar to L. Zeylunica in many respects. 
The bark has a greyish-green epidermis, beneath which is a chocolate- 
coloured surface ; the fracture is short and light coloured, becoming 
red or brown by exposure to the air, 
The Gmelina arborea is a common tree in the plains. The bark is 
about half an inch thick, with a rugged, black and yellowish-brown 
surface, middle layer hard and brown, fracture granular, ochreous 
within, 
Some documents accompanying these specimens stated that the 
barks of these trees were used ‘‘to increase the intoxicating effects 
of sago toddy.” The bark is simply placed in the toddy and left 
there for two or three days. The bark No, 3, it is said, is not so 
frequently used, as the resulting liquor causes headache when drunk. 
With reference to No. 7, it was said that a tenth part of it would. : 
answer the purpose in the absence of other barks. 
It will only be necessary to give the results of the ches = 
examination of these barks, in so far as they are likely to 
