﻿TAB. VI. 



AgUILARIA AgaLLOCHA. 



Aloes, or Eagle-wood. 



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Char. Gen. Perianthium turbinatum, coriaceum: tnhusmtw^ 



squamis descendentibus hirsutis tectus. Stamina ^erlvWa \Q : 



jilamenta breviuscula. Ovarium sessile, obovatum, obtusum, 



jS%/;za sessile, convexum. Ca/?5w/a sessilis, lignosa. Arn.mst. 



Aquilaria Agallocha ; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis, umbellis 



subsessilibus axillaribus tei'minalibusque. 

 Aquilaria Agallocha. Uoxh. Cat. p, 33. Wall. Cat. n. 7250, 



This plant, so rare that De Candolle places it among 

 " species non satis notce^^^ is a native of mountains in Silhet and 

 some eastern provinces of Bengal, and has been distributed by 

 Dr. Wallich. It forms a vast tree 120 feet in height, with a 

 trunk 12 feet in circumference. Its wood is white, very light, 

 soft and porous, and contains the precious perfume, known in 

 the Eastern nations as Aggur or Uggor^ in dark-coloured veins 

 within the wood. The oil is procured by bruising these portions 

 in a mortar, and boiling them in water, when the Aggur rises 

 to the surface. Boxb. MSS. in E. L C. Libr. 



Fig. 1. Flower. /• 2. the same laid open; magnifmL 



