78 L0UREIR0 ON THE NATURE AND MODE 



But however distinct from each o;li-r, the 

 trees are, which afford these species of wood, the 

 ign@rahce of travellers, and the avarice of the 

 druggists, suffer them all to go under the appel- 

 lation of true Aloes-wood. 



Among these substitutes, that species which is 

 found (and really taken by some for the genuine 

 one) in the Malacca Territory, where it is known 

 according to Rumphius* by the name of Garo 

 Malacca, appears to be the best. But then Rum- 

 phius, who, in the year 1693, received -some 

 branches with both leaves and fruit, gives a figure 

 of the Iatterf which is made to resemble a 

 small plum ; the inner side is divided into two 

 or four cells with as many seeds. Hence I infer, 

 that this tree is not the true Agallochum, the fruit 

 of which fas will be hereafter shewn) is a sort of 

 woody monospermous pod. J 



* Rumph. Herbar. Amb. a cap. ii. 



f L. c. tab. 10. 



} Though the figure mentioned in Herbarium Amboincnsc is not 

 exactly like Loureiro's plant in the Banksian herbarium, yet from the 

 description of Rumphius and some allowance necessary to be made for 

 the stiffness of almost all the figures of that work, it appears that both 



