178 ODOROGEAPHIA. 



even in the dried state. The fruit has not, either when fresh or 

 dried, at all the smell of anise, but possesses a faint agreeable 

 odour like that of the leaves and wood. It is rather a local plant 

 in the Khasia hills ; Griffith found it at Mamloo, near Churra ; it 

 occurs also in the deep vallej of the Kala-pani. 



Illicium majus, Hooker and Thomson,* is a native of Thoung 

 Gain range in Tenasserim at an altitude of 5,500 feet. It is a 

 shrub about 30 feet high with leaves from 4 to 6 inches long and 

 IJ to 2 inches broad, sharply acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous, 

 shining above, petiole 1 inch. The flowers are pink. Pedicels 1 

 to 3 inches, subterminal, solitary or fascicled. The segments of 

 the flower are about 16, the sepals and petals being orbicular, 

 ciliate, the inner petals broad- oval. Filaments short, broader than 

 the oblong anthers. It is believed that this species furnishes the 

 star anise known in the Singapore bazaars as " Bunga lawang," a 

 fruit remarkable for their dark brown, almost black, colour ; its 

 carpels number 11 to 13 and are very equally developed. The 

 depression near the end of the ventral suture is longer and 

 shallower than in /. Griffithii, so that the short beak appears less 

 incurved. The taste has a strong resemblance to mace, but lacks 

 the bitterness so manifest in the fruit of /. Griffithii. 



I . cam bod ian u m , Hance.f /. camhodgiamim, Pierre. J This 

 is a broad-leaved species with long-peduncled flowers, native of the 

 Elephant Mountains in Cochin China. 



In describing several varieties of gum obtained from Australian 

 trees of the genus Panax (Araliacece), J. H. Maiden states, § that 

 the odoriferous principle possessed by the panax gums is derived 

 from the bark of the trees, most of the species having a strong smell 

 aniseed and celery, and one being hence termed the " Celery tree." 



Fennel. 



As above observed, anethol forms the chief constituent of oil of 

 Pennel, i.e., the volatile oil derived from different species of 



* Flor. Brit. Ind., i., p. 40. 



t Trimen's Journ. Bot., 1876, p. 240. 



X Flore Forestiere Cochinchin, t. 4. 



§ Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. W., vii., p. 35. 



