3 o8 Mr. Dr yander’s Defer iption of 
Altera, he tells us, that Benjamin is furnifhed by a flirub de- 
fcribed there under the name of Croton Benzoe, and after- 
wards in the Supplementum Plantarum, deferibes again the 
fame plant, under the name of Terminalia Benzoin. M. 
Jacquin, who had been informed that this fhrub was called 
by the French Bienjoint , fuppofes, with reafon, that the fimilar 
found of that word with Benjoin , the French name for Benja- 
min, may have occafioned this miftake *. 
Since that period Dr. Houttuvn has deferibed the Benja- 
min Tree of Sumatra; but for want of good lpecimens has 
been fo unfortunate as to miltake the genus to which it belongs. 
It is hoped, therefore, that the following defeription and annexed 
figure (fee Tab. XII.) may not be unworthy a place in the Phi- 
lofophical Tran fact ion s j they are made from dried fpecimens 
procured from Sumatra by Mr. Marsden, F. R. S. at the 
requeft of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P. R. S. and clearly prove 
that this tree agrees in the parts of fru&ification with the 
Styrax of Linnjeus. 
STYRAX Benzoin y foliis oblongis acuminatis fubtus tomen- 
tofis, racemis compolitis longitudine foliorum. 
Benjui. Garcias ab Horto in Clufii Exoticis, p. 155. 
Arbor Benzoini. Grim in Ephemer . Acad. Mat . Cur i of. Dec . 
2. Ann. I. pag. 370. fig. 31. Sylvius in Valentini Hiftoria 
Simplicium , pag. 487. 
Benzuin. Radermacher in Act. Societ. Batavire , vol. III. pag. 
44 - 
Benjamin or Benzoin. Marfden s Hifl. of Sumatra , pag. 123. 
Taurus Benzoin. Houttuyn in All. Harlem, vol. XXI. pag . 
265. tab. 7. 
Habitat in Sumatra. )? . 
* Hort. Vindob. vol. III. p. 51. 
DESCRIPTIJ*. 
