DRUGS. 



could be converted into Borneo, and it might be, large fortunes would 

 be rapidly made at the first start of the manufacture, the value of Borneo 

 Camphor being in China 80 times that of China and Japan. Karpoor 

 is a name of Columnea balsamica, Gesneracese. See " Oils and Oil-seeds." 



Laurus nobilis. Linn. Sweet Bay. 



Linn. Sytt. Enneandria Monogynia. 



The berry. 



Vernacular. Zafnee, Hub-ul-ghar (berry) Arab. 



Habitat. Italy. 



Remarks. The M^vrj of Hippocrates and the Greeks, and not the green 

 bay tree of the Bible. This, and not the Laurel of English shrubberies, is 

 the true poet's and victor's laurel ; and the term Bachelor (in the degrees 

 of science and the arts) is derived from the custom which once prevailed 

 of placing a crown of Sweet Bay, in berry r , on the heads of successful 

 students, who were thus Bacca laureatus. The common Laurel of 

 English shrubberies is Cerasus Laurocerasus, and the Portugal Laurel, C. 

 lusitanica, both Roseworts. The Laurestine is Viburnum Tinus, V. 

 Opulus being the Guelder Rose, both Caprifoliacese. One kind of 8d(f)vr] of 

 Theophrastus, Sprengel refers to Avicenna tomentosa (Rox.) found in the 

 salt marshes about the Vellard and Sion Causeway. 



Tetranthera roxburghii. Nees. 



Linn. Syst. Enneandria Monogynia. 



The bark. 



Vernacular. Maida luckri, India. 



Habitat. Mountains of India, Chittagong, Cochin-China, and Java. 



N. O. 184. PENJEACE^i. SARCOCOLLADS. 

 Penaea? ? 



Linn. Sytt. (Peneea) Tetrandria Monogynia. 



The foetid gum-resin, Sarcocolla. 



Vernacular. Goojur, By. Unzeroot, Arab. Kunjudeh, Pers. 



Habitat. Ethiopia ? Persia ? 



Remarks. The 2apKo/<oXAa of Dioscorides, who says it is obtained from 

 a Persian tree ; and Lindley is inclined to think it is the product of an 

 Umbellifer, and not of a plant of the present order. Some say it comes 

 from Ethiopia. See " Gums and Resins." 

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