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Some excellent remarks on the Laurus cassiaof Linnaeus, and the plants 
producing the cassia bark of commerce, by Dr. Wight, will be found in 
No. 22 of the Madras Journal of Science. 
605. PERSEA. Gaert. Enneanudria Monogynia. 
A name applied by Theophrastus to an Egyptian tree, 
1263. P. Grarissima. Sprengel’s syst. 2. p. 263. Laurus Persea. Willd. 
Spec. 2. p. 489. Pluk. Alm. t. 267. f. 1 Sloane’s Jamaica 2. t, 222. f. 2, 
The Alligator Pear. Avocado, and Subaltern’s butter tree, of the West 
Indies; intd. by N. 
The fruit is of the size and shape of a large pear, and is deservedly held 
in great esteemin the West Indies, where according to Grainger, it is called 
also Sabacca. 
' ** Nor let thy bright impatient flames destroy 
The golden shaddock; the forbidden fruit 
The white acajou and rich sabacca.” 
697. LAURUS. Rox. Enneandria Monogynia. 
From the Celtic for green; in allusioa to the perpetual green of the laurel. 
1269. LL. Giaucescens? Rox. Flora. 2. p. 307. Kare Kandel. Rheed. Mal. 
6, t. 13.2 Cecidodaphine glaucescens. Nees in Wall. Asiat. Pl. Rar. 2. p. 70, 
Goolumb.—A middle sized tree, with alternate, ovate, lanceolate leaves, 
glancous beneath; flowers small, white, in terminal panicles; appear in 
January aud February.—Fruit round, size of a plum; black when ripe, and 
abounding in an oily substance, which may possibly be turned to some ac- 
count. Grows in Lanowlee grove, Kandalla.—Ravines about Parr, and gene- 
rally on the Ghauts. It requires eXamination, and is probably quite dis- 
tinct from Roxburgh’s tree. 
1270. LL. Rumpum? e. 
Lauraster Amboinensis. Rumph. Amb. 2 ¢. 15. 
A large tree, with alternate, broad lanceolate, dark green leaves; fruit 
oval, size ofa plum, dark coloured when ripe, and abounding like the last, 
in an oily substance, It ripens in May. 
This elegant tree grows in the ravines at Kandalla; also about Hurry- 
Chunderghur, (Dr. Gibson.) 
It requires examination. Can it he identical with Roxburgh’s LZ. lanceo- 
- laria? 
608. TETRANTHERA. Rox. Dioecia Enneandria. 
‘etras —four—anthera—an anther. Gaert. 3. t. 222, f.2. 
$271. T..Apetata? Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p. 819, Rox. Cor. 2. t. 147? 
T. Roxburghii, Nees in Wall. Pl. Asiat, Rar, 2. p. 65. Tomex sebifera. 
Willd. Spec. 2 p. 840. Gaja pippala. Asiat. Fes, 4. p. 303, Laurus involu- 
crata. Retz. Obs. 6. p. 27. - 
Chickna—Warus.-—A small tree; leaves somewhat obovate; collected at 
the ends ofthe branches. Fruit size of a pea; black when ripe, towards the 
close of the raius. 
Parell hill Bombay, wild; Parell garden. It is rather a rate tree, What 
,is Roxburgh’s 7. laurifolia? Probaby this plant should be referred to it. 
1272. T. Lancearowia? Rox, Flora. 3, p. 822. 
Peesah. Goolchae.—A small tree, with;broad lanceolate, light green leaves, 
paler beneath; crowded at the endsofthe branches. Fiowers in December 
and January, from the naked branches below the leaves; in fascicles; very 
small; of a pale yellow colour.—Fruit much resembling a small acorn; half 
hid in the calyx; ripens in June, of a red colour.—Next to the Jambool; 
it is the commonest tree at Mahableshwur. (Dr. Murray.) at Hurrychun- 
derghur. (Dr. Gibson.) and probably along the higher parts of the glauts. 
There isa solitary plant of it on the hill above Kandalla tank. 
