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nominated by the Burmans. Several years before I had di- 

 rected attention to this tree, as producing an astringent Gum, 

 resembling Gum Kino ; but the medical officer to whom I 

 submitted specimens of the gum, said it was " a kind of dra- 

 gon's blood ;'' but after it was known that the gum of the 

 Pa-douk had been sold in London for the veritable Gum Kino, 

 another medical gentleman tried in his practice the exuda- 

 tion of the tree in his compound, in place of the Gum Kino 

 in his stores, and reported the effects the same ; that their 

 medical virtues were alike. 



The next inquiry that arises is for the genus and species 

 of the Pa-douk. When I first came to the coast, all the 

 English residents of my acquaintance called it " Burman 

 senna," and the surgeon of the station told me that he be- 

 lieved it was a species of senna. The Rev. H. Malcolm, 

 D.D., President of Georgetown College, Kentucky, who came 

 out to India a dozen of years ago, in order to go back again 

 and write a book, has stereotyped in his travels, " Pa-douk, 

 or mahogany {Swietenia mahogani), is plenty in the upper 

 provinces, especially round Ava, found occasionally in Pegu. 

 In a native Pali dictionary, found in the Burmese monas- 

 teries, Pa-douk stands as the definition of Pe-td-tha-la, and the 

 corresponding Sanscrit word in Wilson's dictionary is defined, 

 Pentaptera ; but the Pa-douk does not belong to that genus. 

 In Piddington'*s index, however, Peetshala stands as the 

 Hindoo name, and in Voigfs catalogue, Peet-sal, as the Ben- 

 galee name of Pterocarpus marsiipium ; and this brings us 

 nearer the truth, for Pa-douk is a name common to two dif- 

 ferent species of Pterocarpus, but which look so much alike, 

 that they are usually regarded as one species. Undoubtedly, 

 one species is P. Indicus, and the other, I presume, is the 

 one named by Wight, P. Jfallichii, but which was marked in 

 Wallich's catalogue, P. Dalbergioides, from which it differs 

 in no well-marked character, excepting that the racemes are 

 axillary and simple, while in that they are terminal and 

 " much branched." Wight says of P. Wallichii, in his Pro- 

 dromus, " stamens all united or split down on the upper side 

 only ;" so they are sometimes in our tree. In the figure that 

 he gives in his Illustrations, they are represented as diadel- 



