148 cxxn. thymei^eacejj. [Aquilaria. 
Flowers white. Perianth-tube campanulate, puberulous, -i in. 
long; lobes ovate, -07 in. long. Capsule flat obovoid, woody, 1 in. 
long and nearly as wide, base much narrowed, .glabrous. Seed 
ovoid, puberulous, beaked, orange, -2 in. long, hanging by a fili¬ 
form basal appendage, orange colour, covered with red hair. Hab. 
All over the peninsula in forests, Singapore, Garden Jungle; 
Kranji. Johor, Castlewood. Pahang River, Kwala Luit. Malacca, 
Sungei Hudang; Brisu; Bukit Bruang (Derry). Negri Sembilan, 
Tampin. Perak, Kwala Kangsa (Sir Cecil Smith); Larut (Kunstler). 
Penang, Hill, Waterfall (Curtis); Balik Pulau. Disirib. Bangka, 
Java, Sumatra. Native names: Karas; Tuikaras; Tangkaras; 
Tabak (Sakai fide Skeat); Gaharu (a fine kind). Use: A 
celebrated incense wood valued at 400 dollars a picul. 
First described by Garcia da Orta ('* Historia Aromatum ”) from Malacca 
in 1534. The partly decayed heart wood is the part used. 
(2) A. rostrata Ridl. 
Tree; branchlets hairy. Leaves lanceolate, caudate acuminate, 
base shortly narrowed, sub-coriaceous, glabrous, smooth, grey 
when dry above; nerves very slender, numerous; 4 in. long, 
1-75 in. wide; petioles *15 in. long. Fruit (hardly ripe) coriaceous, 
lanceolate long-beaked, base long narrowed, 1 in. long, -3 in. 
wide. Perianth persistent, tubular, -25 in. long, glabrous; lobes 
•05 in. long, oblong obtuse silky pubescent, split on one side. Hab. 
Very little known, Pahang, Wray’s Camp, Gunong Tahan (Ridley). 
The specimens are poor. It much resembles A. agallocha Lamk., especi¬ 
ally in the perianth in fruit, but the beak of the fruit is very much longer 
in proportion to the body of the fruit. 
(3) A. hirta Ridl. Journ. Roy. Soc. As. S. Br. xxxv. 73; 
Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 265. 
Small tree about 30 ft. tall; buds silky. Leaves sub-cori¬ 
aceous, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, acuminate, base acute or round, 
glabrous above, tomentose beneath; nerves 20 to 30 pairs, fine; 
5-25 in. long, 2-3 in. wide; petioles thick, -i in. long. Umbels 
on axillary branches 8- to io-flowered, grey tomentose; peduncles 
•2 to *4 in. long; pedicels *2 in. long. Flowers *5 in. long, tomentose. 
Capsule oblanceolate acute, narrowed at base, grey tomentose, 
leathery, i-6 in. long, *6 in. wide. Seed ovoid, glabrous, beaked, 
black. Hab. Local in forests, Singapore, Bajau. Johor, Bukit 
Pengaram (Ridley). Native name : Chandan. 
Order CXXIII. ELjEAGNACE JE. 
Shrubs (or trees) with copious brown or silvery scales. Leaves 
entire. Flowers small, bi- or uni-sexual in axillary spikes, fascicles 
or racemes. Perianth tubular; limb 2- to 4-lobed (in males some¬ 
times of 2 membranous lobes). Stamens adnate to throat of 
