160 BOTANY, 



COSMETIC BARK, 



The fragrant bark of a tree which is indigenous in 

 Burmah above Rangoon, is more universally used for a 

 cosmetic than sandal wood. A single specimen has been 

 shown me in Maulmain, which is a very ornamental fra- 

 grant flowering shrub of the citron tribe. 

 Murray a paniculata. 

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COSMETIC TUBERCLES. 



An inferior cosmetic wood is seen in market, which is 

 the tubercle of some plant. The Burmese appear, from 

 their name, to regard them as produced by a species of 

 erythrina, for they call them " erythrina thorns ;" but I 

 know the plant to be a creeper, and suspect that it is 

 Toddalia aculeata. 



" floribunda. 



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CRINUM BULBS. 



A dried fragrant substance is seen among the native drugs 

 which is imported. No one seems able to tell what it is, 

 but on tracing its Burman name through the Pali into the 

 Sanscrit, I find Prof. Wilson defines it, with some doubt, 

 as the bulb of a species of crinum. 

 Crinum* 



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BIERGUI COSMETIC WOOD. 



There is a fragrant cosmetic wood sold iu bazar, which 

 is said to come from Mergui, but I never saw the tree. 

 Xanlhoxylacca ? 

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OPIUM. 



I have never seen the poppy under culture, but opium 

 is eaten to a very considerable extent by the Burmese, and 

 the drug is easily procured. 



Papavf.r somniferum* 



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