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Of Plants. 
Part II 
(a) Linfch, 
!. i. c. 7 6. 
(b) Notae in 
Garfiam. 
(c) Lib. i. 
c. 65. 
(d) Phil. 
Tranf. N. 43 
Of this Tree there are two forts: (a) The bell, called 
Calamba , and grows moil in Malacca and Sumatra. Much 
ufcd in India for the making of Beads and Crucifixes. The 
wilder, called Palo Daguilla , and grows nioft in Seylon and 
Choromandel. With this, they burn the dead Bodies of 
their Bramenes and other men of account,in token of honor. 
See hereof alfo Jac. Bontius. (b ) 
A piece of Indian-Wood, called GARON. Very oily ; in 
colour, hardnefs and weight, like to Lignum Aloe. But 
being held a little to the fire, hath a ftrong fragrant 
fcent, much like to that of Cloves.: and feems therefore, 
as well as by its Name, to be the Wood of the Clove-Tree. 
The Clove-Tree is defcribed by Linfihoten. ( c ) Shaped like 
a Bay-Tree. It grows in Amboyna and the Neighbour* 
Iflands. The bell fort in Makian and 7 idor. 
The BARQUE of the Tree LAWANG. Sent from 
Java major , where it is fo called. Being well chewed, it 
hath the felf fame Taft with that of S aJ/afras-Boxquc, fo 
that, probably, the Tree is a Species of Sajfafras. 
Part of an Arm of the STINKING-TREE 3 as it may 
well be called: for it naturally frnells like the llrongelt 
humane excrements, efpccially, as upon the emptying of 
a Houfe of Office. It grows in the Hies of Solon and Timor, 
from whence Sir Philiberto Vematti procur’d it and fent it 
to this Mufaeum. (d) Where, though" it hath now been 
preferved many years, yet feems to give as full and quick a 
fcent as ever. Yet in burning, it yields no fmell 3 as do 
Lignum Aloe and fome other Woods. ’Tis ponderous, 
hard, and of the colour of Englifb-Oak 3 and as that, hath 
large Aer-Vefels 5 yet but few. I (hould have conjectur’d, 
that this Wood belong’d to the Tree called Ahovaj, which 
hath a (linking fmell, but that this is faid to be the more 
odious when it burns. 
A piece of SERPENT-WOOD. Lignum Colubrinum. 
There are divers forts of Woods fo call’d. Tins here is 
different from all thofe Species defcribed by Garfias, and 
out of him by J. Bauhinus. Yet comes neareft to the 
Second. ’Tis above three inches in Diametre, the Barque 
thin, the Wood folid, more than that of Pear-Tree. Of a 
very bitter Taft 3 efpecially when reduced to powder. 
A piece of an other fort of SERPENT-WOOD. Within 
of 
