198 



fl- 



are 



placed alternately, and ftand upon fhort footflalks : tlie flowers 

 large, white, and difpofed in clufters upon iliort peduncles, which 

 terminate the branches : the corolla is monopetalous, funnel-fhaped ' 

 and divided at the limb into five lance-lliaped fegments : the filaments 

 are ten, placed in 



a regular circle, and feem to adhere toward 



bafs 



e : 



the antheras are ered 



and oblong : the 



s the 

 germen is oval, and 



fruit is a pulpy 



fijpports a flender fi:yle, with a fimple fi:igma : the 

 pcricarpium, v/hich contains one or two nuts of an oval compreifed 



It is a native of Italy and the Levant, and flowers in July. 



igure. 



Gerard appears to be the firfl: who cultivated the Storax-tre 

 -England ; and although it is indigenous to many of the fouth 



m 



ern 

 parts of Europe, yet the refinous drug which it produces is only to 



be obtained in perfedion from thefe trees growing in Afiatic Turkey." 



The Storax ifliies in a fluid fiate from incifions made in the bark of 



the trunk, or branches, of the tree ; and as it was formerly the cuftom 



to colled and export this gum-refin in reeds, it obtained the name of 



Styrax calamita. But the only two kinds of Storax '' now to be met 



with in the fhops may be divided into the pure and the common 



\. 



Storax 



th 



e 



firft 



is- ufually in irregular compact mafl^es, free 



from 



impurities, of a yellowifli or reddifh brown appearance, and inter- 

 fperfed with whitilli tears, fomewhat like Gum ammoniac or Benzoin ; 

 it is extremely fragrant, and, upon the application of heat, readily 

 melts. . This has been called Storax in the lump, red Storax, and the 

 feparate tears, Storax in the tear. The common Storax is in large 



mafl^es, very light, and bears no external refemblance whatever to the 

 former Storax, as it feems almoft wholly compofed of dirty faw-duft 

 merely caked together by the refinous matter ; and though much lefs 

 efteemed than the purer kinds of Storax, yet when freed from the 



C 



r 



procerioribus in'Gallo-Pro 

 Du Hamel Traite des arbres torn. ii. *. 28 



fylvis (d 



e 



la 



v^naroeuie de Montrieu, Du Hamel Traite des arbres torn. ii. p. 288), item incifions 

 promanat in planitie quadam agri Tiburtini montium catena feptentrionem verfus cinaa. 

 (idazeas, Journal des S^avans, 1769./). 105. Ed, in a}°). Sed qus in officinis fervatur, 

 onentahs onginis eil, transferturque ad nos ex Turcia per Alaffiliam." Murray Jpp- 



p. 8 



" It is necelTary to obferve, that no reference is here made to the%m 

 Mon ";" ^ / '.'^'7 ^'^^'""'^^ ^^^^' ^^^- the Liqiiidamherftyracifim\ ai 

 %ua te d T '" ^ ^'''^^"" '^' branches in water, which occafi 



, which 



to 

 to 



off for ufc 



f 



/ 



