434 Sino-Iranica 



Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-88) in his K'un yii fu $wo fy M M 1£, and 

 was hence adopted in the pharmacopoeia of the Chinese, for it figures 

 in the Pen ts x ao kan mu H i. 1 The Chinese Gazetteer of Macao 2 mentions 

 pa 'r-su-ma aromatic EL W 8£ & ^ as a kind of benjoin. In this case 

 we have a transcription of Portuguese bdlsamo. 



1 Ch. 6, p. 19. See, further, Waiters, Essays on the Chinese Language, p. 339. 



2 Ao-men ci Uo, Ch. B, p. 41 (cf. Wylie, Notes on Chinese Literature, p. 60). 



