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pair? 
ation of the Camphor. 
DESCRIPTION 
I can only add the particulars which the 
examination of flowering specimens has 
enabled me to supply. flowers are 
terminal and axillary, forming a kind o 
panicle at the extremity of the branches. 
The corolla is five-petaled, longer than the 
calyx, the petals ovate-lanceolate, and in 
some degree adnate or connected together 
at the base. The stamina are numerous, 
and have their filaments united into a ring, 
in which particular it differs from the ge- 
nera most nearly related to it. The an- 
thers are nearly sessile on the tube of the 
filaments, conniving into a conical head 
round the style, and terminating in acute, 
membranaceous points ovary is 
three-celled, ionis: two ovula in each 
cell. The style is longer than the stamina, 
and crowned by a capitate stigma. 
In Sumatra the Camphor-trees are con- 
fined to the country of the Battas, which 
extends about a degree and a half imme- 
diately to the North of the Equator. They 
are also found in Borneo in nearly the same 
parallel-of latitude, and I have reason to 
believe that there are some in the neigh- 
bourhood of Singapore and Johore. This 
valuable tree is not known to exist in any 
other part of the world, and on this account, 
as well as the difficulty of obtaining its 
produce, this kind of Camphor bears an 
exorbitant price. It is all carried to China, 
where it sells for about twelve times as 
much as that of Japan. 
This Camphor is found in a concrete 
State, occupying cavities and fissures in the 
heart of the tree, In order to obtain it, 
the tree is felled and split into lengths, to 
of the extraction of the crystallized 
Masses. The same trees yield both the 
Concrete substance and an oil, which is 
Supposed to be the first stage of the form- 
The Sumatran 
: Camphor i is little known in Europe, and it 
would perhaps deserve examination to as- 
s of how far its deer differ from 
OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 
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For the natural affinities and a more de- 
tailed account of the method of procuring 
the Camphor,! I may refer to the able paper 
! The following particulars concerning the extrac- 
am ommunicated by Mr. 
are extracted from the 12th Tu of the Asiatic Re- 
searches above referred to :— 
** This tree grows spontaneously i 
is to be found in abundance from the back pce 
measuring six or seven feet 
ecess e found in the hea 
of the t yacuum which, in others is 
frequently filled with pitch ; but it t extend to 
the whole length; on the drca they are found in 
small portio a foot and a half long, at 
ce The method of cape - Oil 
is merely by making a d 
Malay axe, in the tree, shout fourteen or tice feet 
from the ground, till near the heart, where a deeper 
incision is made with a small — "gs the Oil, 
if any in the tree, immediately gushes t, and is re- 
—— in rbamboos, oF anyother brin Wee approved 
ner, a party proc roceeds through the woods 
redo the Camphor-trees till pts attain their ob- 
ject. The is procured in pretty nearly the 
same way. Mis bh are cut to t ane peri, about the 
peria Eiai is seen ; ; hundreds may be diis md 
-for tree is discovered ; when 
eee it is felled, and th 
hich are again split, and the C 
pace in circumference of 
P 
middling-sized - tree is about eight China c 
QM eleven — and of a large one, double t 
Se quantity. - thus found is called Se Tan- 
tong. It is o the case that the trees which have _ 
