464 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
and sell it to the traders from all countries.®! When this 
drug reaches China it is not very fragrant. 
Lr Sui-cuey:—The Huan yii chi [10th cent.] mentions 
the @& 4} ji sw ho yu (oil) as produced in An nan (Annam) — 
and San fo ts‘i (Eastern Sumatra), by a tree which exudes 
this substance. It is used in medicine. The best sort is 
a thick liquid without sediment. The Liang pu [a treatise on 
perfumes, 11th cent.] says that the su ho yu is producedin 
the country of the Ta shi (Arabs) and is a kind of tu now a 
hiang. The Meng ki pi t‘an [11th cent. ] says:—The su ho 
hiang is of a red colour like a hard wood, whilst the su ho yu 
is a viscid resin which is commonly used. 
As to the etymology of the term su ho yu, su isa 
fragrant Labiate plant—the Perilla ocimoides [see 67], ho= 
to unite, to mix, yu = oil. 
Witurams [ Chin. Commercial Guide, 101] states :—Rose- oe 
maloes, sw ho yu, is a thick, scented, gummous oil of the 
consistence of tar, obtained by pressure from beans, and 
called gurmala in Bombay ; it is brought from Persia and . 
Upper India to Bombay, and when good has a pearly — 
appearance. It is used in making plasters among the Chines, 
and frequently also as a purge.—WILL1aMs is correct mn 
identifying the su ho yu with rose-maloes, but he is mistaken — 
as to the origin of the drug gurmala, which, according - 
Dymock [Veget. Mat. Med. of W. India, 209] is Cassia 
Jistula, eo 
Rassamala is the Javanese and Malay name for Liguid- 
ambar altingiana, Bl., a lofty and most valuable tree of Java 
with a fragrant wood which yields from incisions in the 
* This passage is taken from the History of the Later Han [article 0” j 
Ta Ts‘in (Roman Empire)] and refers to the end of the first century, WM 
the name sw ho first appears, See Dr. F. HirtH, China and the Roman 
Orient, p. 42. 
85 . : 
5 . Noticed P,, XXXIV, 55, as a Styraw, like resin of Camboe) 
