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0. cassia, or an allied species, produces the Cassia bark of China, 

 which Sir J. Hooker believes to be the Cassia of Ex. xxx. 24 and Psl. 

 xlv. 8. Camphor is produced from the wood of 0. camphora, which 

 H. says is commonly cultivated in India ; but there are other native 

 species, which produce inferior sorts. (For the drug Cassia, see 

 p. 96.) 



2. MACHILUS. 



M. micrantJia. A pretty tree, leaves oblong, lanceolate, 

 smooth, glaucous beneath, flowers greenish, hairy, ovary round, 

 fruit like a large black currant or small gooseberry. Gulamb, 

 Kurma, ~bobarsa. 



H. includes D.'s M. glaucescens in this. The panicles of flowers 

 are much like those of the Mango. Lanoli, Matheran. The Ghauts 

 (2>.). 



3. ALSEODAPHNE. 



* A. semecarpifolia. A small tree very variable in foliage, 

 leaves obovate, smooth, glaucous beneath, often unequal-sided ; 

 panicles more or less umbellate, flower stalks rather long, fruit 

 elliptical, as long as the swollen and warty peduncle. Gulumbi, 

 vivdrana, rani. 



Matheran (Birdwood). The Ghauts (!>.). H. has four varieties ; 

 one of them, ascribed to the Konkan, has the young parts rufous and 

 hoary. 



4. LlTSJSA. 



1. L. Stocksii (Actinodaphne lanceolata, D.). A pretty tree 

 with bluish-grey leaves, lanceolate, drooping in tufts from the 

 end of the branches, about 6 together, racemes of about 8 flowers, 

 short, tawny and silky, bracts large obovate, deciduous, fruit 

 oval like a small red acorn in a green cup. Pesha, gulchai. 



The Ghauts ; very common at Matheran and Mahableshwar. A re- 

 markable tree from the colour and elegant shape and arrangement of 

 the leaves. H. has 3 varieties. 



Dr. Dymock agreed with me as to this identification of the Pesha, 

 but Mr. Birdwood has it as Actinodaphne Hookeri, and Dr. King, of 

 Calcutta, I am told, declared it to be Litscea fuscata, with the descrip- 

 tion of which this appears to me not to agree at all, and which H. 

 ascribes only to Ceylon, at an altitude of 6000 to 8000 feet ! But as 

 H. has 65 species of Litsaea there is evidently room for a good deal of 

 difference of opinion. 



* 2. L. tomentosa (Tctr anther a apetala, D.). All downy 

 except the upper side of the oblong petioled leaves, umbels 

 large, solitary, many-flowered, involucre 4- leaved, flowers 

 minute, perianth none or incomplete, stamens 18 to 20, fila- 



