462 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
names. In Buddhist books the ju hiang is called Ky 
t‘ien tse hiang (heavenly, shining fragrance), also 2 {i #2 & 
to-ka-lo perfume, $f HS 3 tw-lu perfume and BE 8 FH mo-le 
perfume. : 
The drug ju hiang has been correctly identified by 
A. Cinyer in his Specimen Medicine sinicw (1682), 210:— 
Ju hiam est Thus, acrodulce, ulceribus medetur, creat carnem, — 
sistit dolores, eximitur illi oleum. 
Witiams, Chin. Commercial Guide, 93:—Olibanum, — 
ju hiang (é.e. milk perfume). Article of import. 3 
Taran. [ Cat., 65] identifies ju hiang with Resina San- : 
darac, but the drug ju hiang which I procured from a — 
Chinese drug-shop, and which has been examined ee 
Professor Friicxicer, was Olibanum or Frankincense. The . 
ancient Chinese descriptions agree.—See also P, Surra, 161. 
According to Fiiicxicrr and Haneury [ Pharmacographia, : 
120] Olibanum is obtained from the stem of several species 
of Boswellia growing in Eastern Africa and Southern Arabia. Re 
Other species from India are used in the country as incense. — 
Comp. also my Knowl, Ane. Chin. of the Arabs, p. 1 — 
Marco Poo (II, 442), speaking of Dufar on the Arabian 
coast, says that the white Incense. (Frankincense) grows 
there. It resembles a small fir tree. Comp. on the subject 
Yuxe’s note, J.c. 446, 
Regarding the Sanscrit names for Olibanum as giveti >) 
the P., I may observe that Dr. Erren [in his Handb. of os 
Chin. Buddhism] identifies the Chinese to-ka-lo with - . 
Sanserit tagara, meaning “ perfume”. Olibanum in Sansorits 
kunduru [comp. above tu lu perfume] and luban in Hindustan, 
by which name it is also known to the Arabs. It is Jebonah 
in Hebrew, signifying “ milk.” Modern travellers who eis 
seen the frankincense trees state that the fresh juice is milky 
and hardens when exposed to the air. 
