74 GARU AND CHANDAN. 



When the capsule splits the seed hangs out by a slender thread 

 the funicle. 



Occurs in dense forests in Singapore, Garden Jungle, Kranji. 

 Johor. Malacca, Bukit Bruang, Sungei Hudang, Brisu. Negri 

 Sembilan, Tampin, Bukit Sulu. Pahang, Kwala Luit. Penang 

 Waterfall, Balik Pulau. Borneo, Labuk bay. Sumatra, near 

 Kebang, Turabangi River, Lampongs. Banka near Jebus (Miquel 

 in Flora of Sumatra). 



The plant in the garden jungle produced remarkably small 

 more rounded capsules -J an inch long so that I at first took it to 

 be a distinct species but as the leaves and llowers were absolute- 

 ly identical I conclude it is but an abnormal form. 



There seems to have been much confusion between this 

 vSpecies and the Indian Aquilaria Agallocha Roxb. which is well 

 figured by Roxburgh and Colebrook in the Transactions of the 

 Linnean Society xxi t. 21. This tree certainly closely resembles 

 our plant, but apparently attains a greater size ; the nerves of 

 the leaf are more numerous ; the umbels of flowers are solitary 

 and not panicled, and contain 20 to 40 flowers in each. The 

 flowers are nearly twice as big, with ovate obtuse spreading 

 lobes, the scales at the mouth shorter and not or only just pro- 

 jecting beyond the mouth, and five in number, the pistil is 

 flask shaped with a distinct style narrower than the ovary and a 

 large capitate stigma which reaches up to and fills the mouth 

 of the tube. The capsule as figured much resembles that of the 

 Malacca species, but is described as clavate turbinate and vil- 

 lous like a peach. Roxburgh states that capsules and young 

 plants sent by Farquhar from Malacca in 1851 quite resemble 

 those of the Indian species. Hooker, however, says that the 

 figure of the fruit is quite like that of A. Malaccensis and very 

 different from that of the Bhotan and Khasiya species, A agal- 

 locha, which he describes as oblanceolate acuminate thinly 

 coriaceous and glabrous. However this may be it is clear I 

 think that the Malacca plant is very distinct from the Indian 

 one. The only figure of the flower of the Gaharu I have seen 

 published is a very good one in Baillon's History of Plants, vol. 

 vi, p. 108. 



The valued drug is obtained from the centre of old trees, 

 and the Malay garu hunters pretend to be able to see from the 



