BY J. H. MAIDEN. 10'19 



this specific statement of a man who only employs the term ''gum" 

 in its proper significance, I attach much importance. 



I consider the balance of probability to be largely in favour of 

 the exudation in the Indian species being a gum and not a resin. 

 As collateral evidence, the exudations from the Indian Melia 

 Azadirackta, Linn., (another of the " Chittagong woods "), and the 

 Australian form of M. Azedarach, Linn., may be instanced together 

 with the Spotted or Leopard-tree gum (Flinders ia maculoscC). 

 These are the only other exudations of the Meliacece recorded as 

 far as I know. I have seen and examined them, and they are true 

 gums. 



