OF SUMATRA. &j 



camphorifera-,* and his conje&ure, as will be fhown, was not very 

 remote from the truth. 



It has been my fortune, in his abfence, to receive from Doctor 

 Roxburgh's correfpondent at Tapanooly, (Mr. Prince, the rendent at 

 that Hation,) a number of the feeds in very perfect condition, and a few 

 living plants. The latter, I am forry to fay, did not outlive the fub- 

 fequent cold feafon: but the examination of the feed enables me to de- 

 termine the genus of the plant with entire confidence. It undoubtedly 

 belongs to the Vryobalanops of the younger Gee rtner ; and is not un- 

 likely to be the identical fpecies, which furnifhed the fpecimen infpecled 

 by him, and which he named Dryobafanops aromaticn. Gcertner's in- 

 formation indeed ftates the fpecimen to have been received from Ceylon 

 with an intimation that the bark of the tree is the genuine and bed 

 cinnamon. But, as there is every reafon to be fatisfied, that cinnamon 

 is exclufively produced by a fpecies of the laurel,t the informal ion, 

 which accompanied the fpecimen in queftion, may have been in every 

 part inaccurate. 



As this point, however, is uncertain, and the fpecific characters of 

 Gcertner's fpecies are unknown, or at leafl unpublifhed, it is for the 

 prefent neceflary to allot a diftinct. name to the camphor tree of Suma* 

 tra. I prOpofe therefore to name it Dryobalanops camphora, until its 

 identity with D. aromatica be eftablithed. The defcription, which I 

 mall offer of it, is unavoidably imperfect., as the flower has not yet 

 been feen by a botanift. But the generic character is fo ftrongly pro- 

 nounced in the fruit, that there can be no doubt of its place in the fame 



* " Slvrea camphorif r;». Roxburgh. Sp. char. Lea-vcsoval, acuminate, paralltJ veined, fmooih 5 Flow* 

 tn axillary." — Roxburgh's MSS. 

 I Laurui cinamomum. 



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