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fc& Dryobalanops Camph&ra or Camphor4ree of 



By the PRESIDENT. 



J N the fourth volume of the refearches of the Society,., in an efiay bg» 

 the exprefs fubjeel, the camphor of Sumatra is dated to be « the pro- 

 duce of a tree growing on the north-weft fide of Sumatra*, from the line 

 to 3 north.' A familiar dcfcription of the tree is given, on the authority 

 of a gentleman, who long rtfided at Tapanody : and its botanical place 

 is affigne&'in.-the cl.ifs Enneandiia Monogynia, of Linnaeus, differing 

 however in the form of the leaf from the Arbor campfarifera'Japauica* 

 and much reiemblmg. the bay in leaves.' * 



It is evident, that the author of that efoy (M Macdonald), or the 

 pei fon from whom he derived his information (Lieutenant Ltwis), 

 confidered the plint in queftion to be a laurel; as the camphor tree of 



