118 ODOROGRAPHIA. 
odorata, or, more properly, Unona odorata, as he himself corrected 
it, in his ‘Monographie de la Famille des Anonacées’ *, which 
chiefly repeats the statements of Rumphius. 
A very fine coloured illustration of the Cananga odorata is given 
in the ‘ Flora Jave’ of Blume +, the accuracy of which illustra- 
tion may be accepted from the fact of Professor Flickiger’s 
acknowledgment { of its perfect agreement with numerous speci- 
mens of Cananga which he had seen at DeCandolle’s herbarium 
at Geneva, also at the herbarium of Delessert. 
The unjustifiable appellation “Unona odoratissima,’ which has 
erroneously passed into many writings, originated with Blanco §, 
who, in his description of the intense perfume of the flowers, was 
induced to used the superlative “ odoratissima.” 
Baillon || defines ‘‘Canangium” to be a section of the genus 
Uvaria, from which he contends the Ylang-Ylang tree should not 
be separated. 
The notice of Maximowicz, ‘‘ Ueber den Ursprung des Parfiims 
Ylang Ylang” (‘On the origin of the perfume Ylang-Ylang ”’), 
contains merely a confirmation of the derivation of the same from 
Cananga. 
The Cananga odorata is a tree attaining a height of about 
60 feet, the trunk being straight throughout, with a smooth ash- 
coloured bark, having few but profusely ramified diverging 
branches ; the young shoots are round and smooth. The leaves 
are short-petioled, drooping, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with the 
margins entire, but waved and slightly downy along the nerves of 
the underside; they are arranged in two rows, and attain a 
length of 4 to 7 inches and a breadth of 2 to 3 imches. The 
handsome and conspicuous flowers are in fascicles of generally 3, 
sometimes 4, on short peduncles from the axils of the leaves or 
the shoots of the former year’s growth and from the nodes of 
leafless branches. These large bell-shaped, gradually drooping 
flowers are of a pale yellow or greenish yellow, and possess a most 
exquisite perfume, which is frequentiy compared to a mixture of 
the hyacimtk, narcissus, and clove, and sometimes to a mixture of 
e) 
* Paris, 1817, pp. 108 and 114. 
+ Brussels, 1829, vol. 1. fol. 29, tabb. ix. et xiv. B. 
t Archiy. der Pharm. 188], p. 218, and Pharm. Journ. [8] xi. p. 934. 
§ ‘Flora de Filipinas,’ Manilla, 1845, p. 325. 
|| ‘ Dict. de Botanique.’ 
