INODOROUS CANDLE TREE. 
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year. There are several species in Nepal in India and at the 
Cape of Good Hope. The M. Faya , with a 4-celled drupe, and 
about 10 stamens in loose catkins, will, no doubt, constitute a 
different genus, which I propose to call Faya Azorica. 
INODOROUS CANDLE TREE. 
MYRICA inodora; arborea, foliis lanceolato-ellipticis in- 
tegris obtusis margine revolutis basi cuneatis subtus vix 
squamosis plerisque nudis, baccis majusculis albidis. 
Myrica inodora, Bartram’s Travels in Florida, &c. p. 405. 
Myrica obovata, Chapman, MSS. 
In the month of March, 1830, on the borders of the 
Escambia, in West Florida, I had the fortune to re-dis- 
cover this fine species of Myrica, so long since de- 
scribed by the amiable and excellent Wm. Bartram, near 
Taensa Bluff, on the Mobile river, where he remarks, 
August the 5th, 1776, (67 years ago:) “In my ex- 
cursions about this place, I observed many curious 
vegetable productions, particularly a species of Myrica, 
( Myrica inodora .) This very beautiful evergreen shrub, 
which the French inhabitants call the Wax tree, grows 
in wet sandy ground, about the edges of swamps; it 
rises erect 9 or 10 feet, dividing itself into a multitude 
of nearly erect branches, which are garnished with 
many shining deep green entire leaves of a lanceolate 
figure. The branches produce abundance of large round 
berries, which are covered with a scale or coat of white 
wax; no part of this plant possesses any degree of 
fragrance. It is in high estimation with the inhabitants 
for the production of wax for candles, for which purpose 
it answers equally well with bees- wax, or preferable, as 
it is harder and more lasting in burning.” Bartram’s 
Travels , p. 405 and 406. 
We found it exactly in similar situations as those 
