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camphor is iu open iei rare, and the supply is consumed almost 
exclusively in China, where it is valued at from thirty to ninety 
times as much as Wut pero 
“ Blumea camphor is obtained by distillation from Blumea 
balsamifera, a shrub growing in Burma and the Malay 
Peninsula is is usually refined in Canton, ence abo 
10,000 pounds are exported annuall ce of this supply 
is abundant, and as the industry develops it is to enter 
more into en m ordinary ca or ither of thes 
plants can be grow the United States, except possibly in 
southern ida, without ge against cold. 
“LYSTER H. DEW 
* Assistant in Division of Botany: 
* Washington, D. C., 
* August 12, 1897. T 
ere a brief note on Borneo camphor wood in the Kew 
Bulletin for 1887 (September, p. 15), and a full account of Blumea 
camphor in the volume for 1895 (pp. 275-277, with plate, and 
also 1896, p. 73). 
PRODUCTION IN CHINA. 
Dr. Henry, the well-known Chinese Botanist, gives the follow- 
ing account in the Pharmaceutical Jowrnal (March 6, 1897, 
p. 201) :— 
The camphor tree, Cinnamomum Camphora, Nees, is indi- 
genous to Japan, Formosa, and the central and southern provinces 
of China. It has been known to the Chinese from ancient times, 
but ^pperenuy until 300 or 400 years ago only as a valuable 
timber 
The d first in use was undoubtedly the Borneo camphor, 
and, as Hanbury says (* Pharmacographia," p. 512), “at what 
period and at whose instigation the Chinese began to manufacture 
camphor from the camphor laurel is not known.” Hanbury 
is, «“«K omm aroun 
Pakhoi, but not —— (Playfair). E oeil č Dr. Henry states 
that the wood is much used in Central China, but no camphor is 
extracted.” Until * dee years ago, then, no camphor was pro- 
duced on the mainland of China, but it is crecer to note that 
the camphor industry has been started in China and that there 
are signs that it nen become important. This 3 all the more 
