252 NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Malays use a sweet-smelling wood, the Kaju Garu, as a remedial agent, and as 
the stem of old trees, which have either fallen down or have been felled for 
that purpose. It is filled with an oily substance, and diffuses, on being burnt, 
a peculiar smell, somewhat like that of rhubarb. The Kaju Garu is one of the 
inferior sorts of odoriferous wood, about which Rumphius, Herb. Amboin. ii. 
p. 29, ought to be consulted. It seems to come very near the Bastard-Agel- 
Holze which that author afterwards mentions. In Bengal there is another 
sort, derived from Aquilaria Agallocha,* the wood of which is finely grated 
and boiled in water, when the oil comes to the surface. Ag. Agallocha seems 
also to grow in Borneo, Sumatra, and Banca : and young plants from the first- 
named island are now cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg. The 
species found in Java does not seem to be described. For along time we 
made ful efforts to 1 thing about its flower and fruit, but now 
we know that the tree blossoms in April and May ; and through the kindness 
of Mr. Tin Cate, of Tjampea, near Buitenzorg, we have lately received the long- 
expected flowers. The tree proves to be an Aquilarinea, resembling in habit 
which has been derived from the style. Gonystylus Miquelianus is a tall tree, 
with alternate, oblong leaves, axillary or terminal spikes, and roundish drupes. 
It g in the forests of tl tains of J: d Sumatra ; and Aquilaria (?) 
macrophylla, Miq., and A. Bancana, Miq., may perhaps prove congeners. 
(Teijsmann and Binnendyk, in Bot. Zeitung, 1862, p. 265.) 
NEW PUBLICATION S. 
Thirsk Natural History Society. | Curator's Report for 1863. 
Thirsk, 1864.  8vo. 
The Curator's Report for 1863 of the Botanical Exchange Club, in 
connection with the Thirsk Natural History Society, has recently been 
printéd, and contains, as usual, remarks on most of the novelties and ` 
doubtful plants of our flora to which attention has been called during 
the year in this Journal, Mr. Symes's edition of * English Botany,’ and 
See D. Hanbury's excellent paper v this subject in * Pharm ical Journal 
; : 
* D », 
See D. l aceutical J > 
vol. iii. (1862), p. 317. Kajn Garu or Kayu is the Malay name id which 
ignum Aloes is sold at Singapore.—Ep, 
