Latin Names, 
Gbfervations, 
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Laurus Caffia 
Laur. Cinamomum 
-Laurus Camphora 
Cycas Circinalis 
Amyris Gileadenfis 
Arundo Bambo 
Anacardus Orien 
talis 
2d Ed. Lin. Sp. 
English Names. 
p. 528 
P . 528 
Cafllia Lignea-tree 
Cinnamon-tree 
p. 528 
Camphire-tree* 
p. 1658 
Sago Palm-tree 
Lin.Mant.165. 
True balm of Gile- 
ad-tree f 
p. 120 
The true Bamboo 
cane 
Kcemp.Amoen. 
P- 793 
Siam varnifh-tree, 
called Ton-rak 
by the Japonefe 
Grows in Sumatra. 
in Ceylon, Guadaloupe, and 
in moft of our newly ceded 
iflands. 
In Japan, and in Sumatra, now 
~ in England in the green- 
houfes about London. It 
will grow freely where o- 
ranges and lemons do. 
Til Java, and the warmed 
parts of the Eaft-Jndies. 
Lately difcovered in Arabia by 
Dr. Forfkall, and defcribed 
by Dr. Linnaeus in a late 
diftertation. 
Of great ufe in China, and 
might be alfo in our Ame- 
rican iflands J. 
The fruit of this is the Malac- 
ca bean, or marking nut, 
and the Oriental Anacar- 
dium of the fliops. This is 
the common varnifii of the 
Eaft-Indies, as defcribed by 
Kaempfer. This tree is un- 
known to the botanifts. 
The camphire from Sumatra is greatly preferable to that of Japan; we are not certain whe- 
ther it is from a different fpecies of tree, but it feems well worth inquiring into, as the effects 
of proportionable quantities in medicine are furprizingly different, perhaps it may be owing to 
the great difference of heat in the climates. 
f We have in the ifland of Jamaica, a fpecies of tree of this genus, called by Linnasus Amyris 
balfamifera. See Species Plantarum, p. 496. Sir Hans Sloane, in his Hilt, of Jam. vol. II. 
p. 24. calls this tree Lignum Rhodium, from the odoriferous fmell of its wood when burnt, 
which it diffufes a great way ; for which reafon he believes it to be the tree that afforded the 
agreeable fcent which Columbus perceived on the fouth Ihore of Cuba, upon the difcovery of 
that ifland, as it is mentioned by feveral hiflorians. — Dr. Pat. Browne, in his hiftory of Jamaica, 
p. 20S. calls this tree white candlewood, or rofewood, and commends it much; he fays it is 
very refinous, burns freely, and affords a moll; agreeable fmell; and that all the parts of this tree 
are full of warm and aromatic particles. —Quere, Whether it is not worth while to extradl 
the balfam, as it agrees fo near in charadter and genus with that moll valuable drug the balfam 
of Mecca? 
X The French had brought this moft ufeful plant from the Eafl-Indies to their Wefl-India 
iflands : a few roots have been got from thence to Grenada, and will perhaps in time become 
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