se  BURSBRACEZE 313° 
- slightly milky with alcoholic solution of pide acetate, gives 
a slight yellow precipitate with one drop of liq. plumbi 
i: ~ subacet., and an intense greenish-black colour with tinct. ferri 
er | perchlor. It is bitter and becomes milky with water. 
q “The mucilage made by dissolving 1 part of the gum (com- 
_ pletely washed with rectified spirit) in 40 of water, is tasteless, 
partly precipitated by subacetate of lead and not at all by 
neutral acetate. 
“The ash (1°6 per cent.) appears to ‘be chiefly calcic car- 
bonate, dissolving entirely with effervescence in dilute acetic 
acid, and giving a copious precipitate with ammonium oxalate. | 
' “Water distilled from opaque bdellium had the slight odour 
of the drug, but there was no appearance of oil globules in 
orking on a small scale. | 
ee “Composition of opaque bdellium— 
Soluble in alcohol (by cua wa aes at 
Gum soluble in water... ... iy os SUE 
Gum insoluble in water a See i. J 
Moisture... a4 ia mo “i a 11°50 
2 ) 100-00.” - 
Pharm. Journ., July 17th, 1880, 3 
Commerce.—The “source of African Bdellium has already 
~ been noticed.* Indian Bdellium.is produced in the Central 
Provinces, Cutch and Sind.. Value, African, Rs. 8 per maund 
of 373 lbs.; Indian, Rs. 3g to Rs. 4 per maund, 
B. pubescens (Bayee of the hill Beloochees) yields 
Small quantity of a tasteless, inodorons, brittle gum 
= - Stocks i in Phar. Journal (i.), Vol. TX., p. 275); where gu es 
of B. Mikm and B. pubescens will be found. Combined 
Wth sulphur, catechu and borax it has been recommended 
. Peay as the Bysabol Sea: and which was identi 
Trimen in ‘Medicinal pera as Hemprichia 
Tr Engler, as Maree: enseriserer of t 
