190 ODOROGEAPHIA. 



Indian Museum, London, and had special facilities to acquire exact 

 knowledge on the subject. (Bennett states in his " Xotes on 

 Indian Burseracea " above-referred to, that " This well-known tree, 

 a native of the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, is extensively 

 cultivated throughout India.") 



Very similar to C. commune, of which it may only be a variety, 

 and is scarcely distinguishable except by the shorter stalks to the 

 leaflets, is C. Zei/lanicum, Blume (Syn. C. halsamiferiim, Moon ; 

 Amyris Zeylanica, Eetz ; Bcdsamodendron Zeylanicum Kunth., in 

 Ann. Xat. Sc. [1]., ii., p. 349 ; D. C. Prodr. ii., p. 76). This tree is 

 a native of Ceylon. 



Angelica. 



A, Archangel ica {A. officinalis), Lin. spec, 360; Oeder, Flora 

 Danica, t. 206 ; Xees, Plantarum in Horto Medico, ix., t. 14 ; 

 Hayne, Getrene, Darstellung, vii., t. 8 : Woodville Med. Bot. t. 60. 



This handsome umbelliferous perennial herb is a native of 

 Europe, on mountains or by river sides, particularly in Lapland, 

 Sweden, Norway, Germany, Carparthian mountains ; and from 

 Unalashka to the Bay of Eschsoltz. In Britain it is rare, but 

 apparently a naturalised plant, being principally found on the banks 

 of rivers, lakes and ditches, also in marshes growing among reeds. 

 It is commercially cultivated in Thuringia and on the Erz Moun- 

 tains of Saxony, but not in sufficient quantity to supply the 

 increased demand of the last year or two, as evidenced by the very 

 important rise in the price of the roots and seeds. 



In appearance, it is a stately plant of about 6 feet in height, 

 with a robust, polished stem, striated, most frequently tinged with 

 purple and covered with a glaucous bloom like that of a plum ; 

 much branched in the upper part, bearing large compound leaves 

 covered with a bloom like that of the stem. The leaves are at 

 first ternate, then pinnate ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate or subcordate, 

 cut, and sharply serrated, partly decurrent, the odd one deeply 

 3-lobed. The plant may be distinguished at a considerable distance 

 by the large egg-shaped expansions of the leaf-stalks, which serve 

 as an integument for the as yet unexpanded flowers. The 

 involucres consist of a very few linear leaves or are wanting 

 altogether. At the extremity of each branch is a large convex 

 umbel of c^reenish flowers. 



