SUMATRA. 
thence again to the Roman catholic countries, where it U biirnr as in- 
cenfe in their religious rites. The remainder is chiefly employed la 
medicine, being much efleemed as an expe<!toranc and ftyptlc, and con- 
iHtutcs the bafis of that valuable balfam, diftinguifhed by the name of 
Turlington, whofe very falutary effects, particularly in the cure of green 
and other wounds, is well known to gentlemen abroad, who cannot al- 
ways obtain affillance from the faculty, and to which I can bear rayfclf, 
the ampleft teftimony. It is alfo employed, if I am not mifmformedj 
in the compoficion of court flicking plainer. There is reafon to regret 
that its virtues have not been more carefully explored, as there is the 
ftrongeft prefumption of its poffefling as powerful and falubrious qualities, 
as any vegetable production in the nmtma mdjca* I have not a doubt 
but that fome phyiician of genius, affifted by the ikili of an able chymift, 
will one day bring this article, as well as cam ph ire, which has been too 
much, though not equally neglected, into the repute they feem fo emi- 
nently to deferve. There are two other fpecies of Benjamin ; the one 
diHinguilhed by the epithet of fcented (iookng) from its peculiar frag- 
rance ; and the other, a wild fort (n^xmalla) of little value, and not 
confidered as an object of commerce. 
CaiEa (iodeit mances). This is a coarfe fpecies of cinnamon, well Ciffia. 
known in Europe, which flouriflies chiefly as well as the two foregoing 
articles, in the northern part of the ifland i but with this difference, that 
the camphire and benjamin grow only near the coafl, whereas the caffia 
is a native of the central parts of the country. It is moftly procured 
in thofe diftrids which lie inland of Tappanool}\ but is alfo found in 
M&ofeey where Faimbang river takes its rife* The leaves arc about four 
inches long, narrower than the bay, (to which tribe it belongs) and more 
pointed f deep green ; fmooth fur face, and plain edge. The principal 
fibres take their rife from the peduncle. The young leaves are moftly 
of reddifh hue. The bloflbms grow fix in number upon flender foot- 
ftalks, clofe to the bottom of the leaf. They are monopetalous, fmall, 
white, flellated in fix point*. The flamina are fixj with one flyle, grow- 
ing from the germen, which flands up in three brownifli fegments, re- 
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