MATERIA MEDICA OF THE ANCIENT CHINESE. 465 
bark a honey-like, sweet-scented resin, which hardens by 
exposure to the air. The term rose-maloes is probably derived 
from the above name, but the drug so called is, as the late 
D. Hanpury has conclusively shown [ Se. pap., 143), im- 
ported into Bombay from Aden, the Persian Gulf and the 
Red Sea, being probably brought thither from Alexandria. 
He has also established by comparison its identity with the 
substance known as Liquid Storax, obtained from Liquid- 
ambar orientalis, L., in Asia minor.—The sw ho yu procured 
from a Chinese drug-shop at Peking was of the consistence 
of tar, of a light gray colour and scentless. It was sent to 
Professor Fuiicxrcer and proved to be Liquid Storax. 
Garcia aB Orra [writing at Goa, 1534-63] says that Roga 
matha is the Chinese name for Liquid Storax. Very probably 
the Javanese name rossamala (rose-maloes) was originally, 
and is still, applied to the Storax obtained from Liquidambar 
_ altingiana and other trees of S.E. Asia. See Friox. & 
Hans., Pharmacographia, 247. Manrtisi [ Atlas sinensis, 
P- 25, written 200 years ago] states:—Regnum Annam, 
oleum illud seu liquor suavissimus quam Lusitani rosamaliam 
vocant, hie stillet ex arboribus. This may be the Amyris 
ambrosiaca in Lourniro’s Fl. cochin. [283 ]:—Cochinchinese 
balsamum quod ex arbore agresti modice stillat, colore cinereo 
et fragrantia eximia non multum differt a styrace liquida, 
qu Liquidambar a Linnzeo vocatur. 
I can make nothing of the name given in the P. asa 
Sanscrit name of the sw ho yu. 
Comp. also P. Surry, 187 :—Rose-maloes. 
There is another kind of Storax, mentioned in ancient 
Chinese records on foreign countries as a product of Southern 
and Western Asia, termed 2 7 An sihiang. P., XXXIV, 
82 T., COCXVL 
The name An si was applied in the 2nd cent. to the 
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