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The Champaca ( Michelia Champaca L.) of the order of Magno- 
liaceae, is very commonly cultivated by natives for its deliciously 
scented yellow flowers. It is grown from seed and forms a tree of 
fairly large size, flowering most of the year abundantly. The oil 
of Champaca seems to be but seldom distilled, ft is indeed very 
costly (Gildemeister). Its scent is said to resemble that of Acacia 
Farnesiana, reminding also of violet and ylang-ylang. The tree is 
very popular with natives, who was fond of putting the flowers in 
their hair, and there should be no difficulty in procuring enough in 
a short time for extraction of the oil, should the demand be great 
enough. The white Champaca, is more floriferous and the flowers 
more strongly scented. It is the Michelia longifolia , BI. Accord- 
ing to Gildermeister the oil is very volatile and is scented like Basil. 
Aglaia odorata Lour. — Is a small bushy tree commonly grown 
in our Gardens and introduced from China. It has small dark green 
leaves, and panicles of very small yellow fragrant flowers. These 
flowers are used by the Chinese for scenting tea and in the com- 
position of Joss-sticks. The oil seems never to have been prepared 
but it could probably be extracted by maceration or enfleurage,' as 
suggested in Sawer’s Odorographia. The scent is very sweet and 
delicious. 
There are a number of other sweet scented flowers which might 
be obtained here in sufficient quantity to be used in extracting the 
perfumes or which could be readily cultivated for the purpose. 
Such are the Frangipani, ( Plumiera ) the Bunga Tanjong (Mi~ 
musops Elengi ) , the Tonkin creeper, {Pergulan'a ) , the Betel nut 
(Ar'eca Catechu ), Pandanus, and the tuberose. 
H. N. R. 
BRUCEA SUMATRANA. 
The interest in this new drug mentioned in Bulletin No. 3, p. 122, 
has by no means abated, and applications for its seeds still come 
from Europe and elsewhere. An important article quoted below 
on its use and properties has been published by E. MERCK, of 
Darmstadt in his Annual Report, and I take this opportunity of 
giving a full account of the plant : 
Brucea Sumatrana , Roxb. is a small shrub belonging to the 
order Simarubece. It attains the height of about 6 or 8 feet with 
long slender white-barked stems, when grown in shade, grown in 
the open and pruned back it becomes more bushy and shorter with 
larger leaves. The leaves are pinnate with four pairs of leaflets op- 
posite and petioled and a terminal one. The pairs of leaflets are about 
an inch apart, soft lanceolate acuminate and crenate, about 3 inches 
long and inch wide, dark green above and paler beneath, softly 
hairy on both surfaces especially on the nerves. The whole leaf 
is about 8 inches long. The flowers are borne in slender racemes 
about if to a foot long, in the axils the leaves. They are very 
small about 1 / 1 6th inch across, with 4 minute oblong petals, and 
4 larger oblong petals, both deep red. The 4 stamens are very 
