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ON THE CAMPHOR-TREE OF SUMATRA. 
Rademacher,* Houttuyn,f Gasrtner, J Colebrooke, § Roxburgh, || 
and William Jack.U 
I will here repeat the diagnostic description given of this tree 
elsewhere, founded upon specimens from Sumatra, collected by 
Dr. Junghuhn. 
Dryobalanops, Gcertn., Colebr., Jack. 
Calyx inferus, monophyllus,cupulatus, limbo deraum 5-alato, alis patentibus. 
Corolla infera. 5-partita (vel 5-petala, petalis basi junctis), laciniis ovato- 
lanceolatis. Stamina hypogyna, plurirna, monodelpha, annulo in basi 
corollae inserta ; antherse subsessiles, biloculares, elongatse, lineares, 
loculis membranaceis, mucronatis. Ovarium superum, ovatum, stylo 
post anthesin ssepe persistente acuminatum, triloculare, loculusbiovulatus. 
Stylus filiformis, staminibus vix longior. Stigma vix distinctum (nec 
capitatum). Capsula uniloculars, trivalvis, monosperma, calyci aucto 
partim insidens, partim ejus, laciniis auctis alseformibus cincta. Seminis 
embryo exalbuminosus, inversus, cotyledonibus insequalibus carnosis 
chrysaloideo-contortuplicatis. — Arbores excelsai Sumatram insulam hibi- 
tantes, foliis altemis coriaceis ; stipulis caducis ; floribus paniculatis, 
terminalibus et axillaribus. 
Dryobalanops Camphora, Colebr. ; foliis ovatis obtuse acuminatis basi- 
acutis superne nitidis dorso apacis parallele venosis carinatis. 
Hab. Regiou. 1-000' ; prope Tapanuli et Huruba. 
SYNONYMA. 
Be Arbore Camphoros litera Wilhelmi ten Rhyne ad Jacob Breynium: 
Prodr. ej fasc. rar. plant, Gedani, 1G83. 
Arbor Camphorce, Grimm, Observ. in Miscell. Cur. sive Ephem. Nat. 
Curios. 1683, p. 371, cum tab. fig. 33 (mala). 
Arbor Camphorifera, Yalentini, Ind. lit. p. 488, 1716, ex auctoritate Arent 
Sylvii. 
Arbor Camphorifera, Mich. Berlin. Valentini Hist. Simpl. Reformata, 
lib. ii. sect, vi., p. 250. Rumphii Herb. Amb. Auct. cap. lxxxii., p. 67. 
1755. Ch. Miller, in Phil. Trans, vol. lxviii., p. 1, pp. 161, 170, 188. 
* Yerhand. van het Bataviaasclie Genootschap, vol. iii., p. 27. 1785. ; vii. 
Batavia. 1814. 
-j- Verh der Holl Maatscli van Wetense, pi. vii. 1784. 
t Suppl. Carpol, vol. iii. p. 49. 
§ Asiatic Researches, vol. xii., p. 537. 1818. 
|| Flor. Ind., vol. ii., p. 617. 1832. 
^[Hooker's Companion, vol. i., p. 253. 1835. 
