A lecture on the geography of plants / By John Barton.

  • John Barton
Date:
1827
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Credit: A lecture on the geography of plants / By John Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bark of a tree nearly allied to the common Bay- tree* * * §, which grows in the island of Ceylon as abundantly as the Hazel with us. From the leaves of this tree is distilled an essential oil, sold in the shops by the name of oil of cloves. Another kind of oil, obtained from the fruit, is extremely fragrant, and is made into candles in Ceylon, for the sole use of the king-f*. The bark commonly sold in the shops under the name of cinnamon is that of the Cassia J, an- other tree of the same family, which grows in Sumatra and Java. A third tree§, belonging to the same family, a native of Japan, yields camphor, which is procured by distilling the twigs with water. Ginger is the root of an herb || found in the East Indies, but naturalized in Jamaica, whence we derive a considerable part of our supply of this article. Pepper is brought from Malacca, Java, and Sumatra. It is the fruit of a trailing plant IT, remarkable for tbe simple structure of its blossom. The fruit is a red berry, containing one round seed: this berry, dried and shrivelled, is the hlaclc pepper * Laurus cinnamomum. -}- Woodville’s Medical Botany. £ Laurus cassia. § Laurus camphora. I) Amomum zingiber, f Piper nigrum.