Puate 1957. 
BLUMEA BALSAMIFERA, DC. 
Compositz. Tribe InuLomeEa. 
- India, from the Himalaya to Singapore and Indian Archi- 
pelago, various Collectors ; China, to coast of Formosa, Wilford. 
inan. 
Caulis basi suffruticoso 5-8-ped. alt. Folia inferiora cum petiolo 
7-12 poll. longa. Capitula 1-4 poll. lata, bracteis involucri tandem 
laxis vy. plus minus recurvis. Receptaculum glabrum leviter tuber- 
a 
anguste columnare angulare parce sericeum v. glabratum ; pappus — 
simplex 1-seriatus corolla fere zequilongus. : 
We find a place for this common Indian species in ‘Icones Plan- 
tarum,’ chiefly on account of its economic, interest as affording @ 
"ea exported from Canton and Hainan of considerable annual 
ina, as well as of Hainan, but we have no specimens from thence. 
€ are indebted to Dr. Henry for the subjoined note.—D. OLIVER. 
is an ‘ 
€xport of about 10,000 lbs. of ngai-p ‘ten. Ha bury (S nce Notes, 
n cre 
P. 394) glves an account of the camphor, and mentions that the plant 
ug Westion is well known to emit when bruised a strong odour 
of ‘amphor, and that in Burmah a crude camphor is extracted from 
