214 ^ JAPAN. 



Chenopodium Jcoparla, 113. Sp. pi. i. 622. Kaempf.Amcen. v. p. 



885. A famous medicine, fays Doaor rbunberg, according to 



• Kaewpfcr, from whom he borrows moit of the medicinal virtues 



of the plants. 



Acorns calamusy 144. Sp. pi. 2. p. 92. Kaempf. Amcen, v. p. 912. 



FL Cocb. 259. 



Calamus aromaticus, Gerard, 63, ftill retained in our difpenfa- 



tory. 



Conval/aria Japonica, 139. Kaempf. Amcen. v. p. 823. fig. p. 

 824. Lin. Suppl. p. 204. The roots, preferved in fugar, are.rcr. 

 commended both by \.\\^ Cblnefe and Japanefe toixck. people. 



Sm'ilax China, 152. Sp. pi. 4. 256. Kaempf. Amcen. v. p. 781. fig. 

 p. 782. Flor. Cocb. 763. 



Polygonum multiflorum, 169. The root eaten raw is efteemed a 

 cordial ; roafted it has a bitter tafte. 

 Camphor. Luurus camphora, 172. Sp. pi. 2. p. 226. Kaempf.Amoen. v. p.770, 

 f. 771. Travels, i. 115. Flor. Cocb, 306. The camphor tree grows to 

 a vaft fizein all parts of Japan, and its iilands ; as yet it has only 

 been figured by Kaempfer. The camphor is extra6ted from the 

 wood by the jxjafants, who cut it into fmall pieces, and boiling 

 them in water, obtain this drug, w-hich they fell very cheap; 

 The fapancfe value the camphor of Sumatra and Borneo much 

 more than their own, and will give eighty or a hundred Catti of 

 their boiled camphor for one of the Bornean ; the laft is native, 

 and gathered on tiie flumps of the trees, or taken from the in- 

 terfliccs in fmall cryflallized lamps. There is another kind 

 found fluid, which is called camphor oil, but never on the fame 

 tree with the concrete; this feems another fpecies, and is obtained 

 by incifion ; a hole is made in the trunk capable of holding 

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