533. - -ON THE. CAMPHOR-TREE 



natural order -with, the Sherea, the Di pilocarpus, BJid^atir^ to- which 

 the Hopea of Doctor Roxburgh is to be added ; aadiiBoH-.probabl^m 

 the fame clafs and order in the linnean artificial arrangement, viz. Po- 

 ly andria monogynia. 



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This feclion of Juss-ieu's natural order ofGa^a/tfracomprifes trees.re^ 



markable for their aromatic and refinous productions. Shoreaj'obufia; 

 and Zu??ibug a, and perhaps other fpecies of the genus, yield jp|^f£tjjj^V$* 

 dance the re fin called by the Hindujldnis, Dhun a, cmdhy the £7? glifli in In din. 

 Dammer, which is very generally ufed as a fubftitute for pitch for ma- 

 rine purpofes. The natives. of India alfo employ it in their temples in 

 the manner of incenfe. Dipterocorpus co Hiatus, turbinatus, incajfaus, 

 alatus, and probably other fpecies of the genus, afford the feveral forts 

 .of balfam called by the natives of India, Garjan ; by the Singhalefe, Dhor- 

 fiatel; and by the Englijli, Wood- oil. Vatei ta Indica produces the 

 re fin in India called Copal as very nearly approching the true -re-fin of 

 that name: the belt fpecimens are employed, as ornaments, under the 

 denomination of amber f Kahroba) to which it bears exterior refemblance; 

 in its recent and fluid (late it is ufed as a varnifh in the fouth of India, 

 (Buchanan's My/ore 2, p. 476,) and diffolved by heat in clofed vefiels 

 is employed for the fame purpofe in other parts of India. Another 

 plant of the fame genus, Valeria lanceoz-Jolia, affords a refm from which, 

 #s from other re fins, the Indians prepare one of the materials of their 

 jeligious oblations. 



DESCRIPTION, 



Br-yobalanops Camphor a. Cole, 



%ss? Char. ... 



L4yx one- leaved, permanent; the five divifions of the border growing 

 into long, remote, reflex wings* 



