Flora Medica

LAURACE.E.also drier and more powdery when chewed. The smell moreover isless agreeable, not so purely that of cloves, but with a strong odour ofnutmegs.682. C. xanthoneuron Blume Rumphia xxxiii. 1. 13. f. 1.Papuan islands, and Moluccas.A tree. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, bluntly acuminate,acute at the base, shortly triple-nerved, netted and hoary underneath ;nerves above their middle furnished with branching veins. A kind ofCulilawan bark of great fragrance, clove-scented, and more pungentthan the true sort, when fresh, but losing its quality by time. It is soextremely like Massoy bark, as to be confounded with it, although thelatter is not the produce of any Cinnamon, according to Blume.683. C. nitidum Hook, exot.fi.1. 176. Blume Rumphia xxxv.t. 15. Laurus malabathrica Roxb. hort. Calc. p. 30. Cinnamomumeucalyptoides Nees in Wall. pi.as. ii. p.73. Continentof India ;Ceylon Java.A ; shrub, or small tree. Leaves elliptical or elliptical-oblong, taperinga little to each end, usually withering at the point, shortly triple-nerved,nearly veinless, smooth ;the nerves running nearly through to thepoint. Racemes, or rather a terminal compound cyme, branched,panicled, subterminal, about as long as the leaves. Flowers silky.Segments of the calyx deciduous in the middle. Blume. This is theplant which furnished the principal part of the " Folia Malabathri " ofthe old pharmacologists, a mixture of the leaves of several species ofCinnamon, and once used as an aromatic substitute for Cinnamon.684. C. javanicum Blume bydr. p. 570. Rumphia p. 42. 1. 19.Laurus Malabathrum Horsfield in act. bat. viii. Java andBorneo.A^tree with a trunk 20-30 feet high. Leaves unusually large,elliptical-oblong, acuminate, obtuse at the base, 3- or shortly triplenerved,transversely netted ;the nerves confluent at the apex, on theunder side densely downy, as well as the petioles, branches, and spreadingterminal panicle. Blume. Bark a deep cinnamon brown, morebitter than Culilawan bark ;and the leaves when rubbed have a verysharp aromatic odour. Blume says the bark deserves the seriousattention of medical men, on account of its powerful effects in spasmodiccolic, and the after-pains attending parturition.CAMPHORA.Flowers hermaphrodite, panicled, naked. Calyx 6-cleft, papery,with a deciduous limb. Fertile stamens 9, in 3 rows ; theinner with 2, stalked compressed glands at the base ; anthers4-celled ;the outer turned inwards, the inner outwards. Threesterile stamens shaped like the first, placed in a whorl alternatingwith the stamens of the second row ; 3 others stalked, withan ovate glandular head. Fruit placed on the obconical base ofthe calyx. Leaves triple-nerved, glandular in the axils of theprincipal veins. Leaf buds scaly.332