ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 149-150.] MAY and JUNE. [1899. 
DCXLVIII.—CAMPHOR. 
(Cinnamomum Camphora, Nees.) 
Enquiries continue to be made as to the cultivation of the tree 
producing this substance. A brief note was given in the Kew 
anapara ety small. A new lication is, however, likely to 
increase its consumption, edite: indefinitely. This is described 
in thefollowing words by Sir Frederick Abel, in a letter printed 
in the Bulletin :— 
*'lhis substance has been used extensively for many years 
NDA which is applied to the manufacture of imitation ivory, 
tortoise-shell, horn, and a great variety of purposes. 
An excellent account one pave gig history and economic 
applinatione of the cam was issued in 1897 by = 
Division of Botany of ihe "United States Department of Agr 
culture, Circular No. 19. It is — n with some slight 
condensation :— 
* DESCRIPTION. 
“ The camphor tree is an evergreen, related to the bay and to the 
sassafras of the United States. In its native habitat it attains a 
helgat of 60 to 100 feet, with wide-spreading branches and a 
trunk 20 to 40 inches in diameter. The leaves are broadly lanceo- 
late in form, acuminate at both base and apex, of a light green 
colour, smooth and shining above and whitish or glaucous on the 
under surface. The lower pair of lateral veins are more prominent 
than the others, but the leaves are not as distinctly 3-nerved as 
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