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it is only valued at from 2 to 3 rupees for 7 maunds of 80 Ibs. 
weight each.” (Flora Indica.) The resin is not now known in 
Calcutta, but Dr. King informs us that it is still sold in 
Darjeeling under the name of Gokal-dhup, the Paharia name of 
the tree, and is used by the Lepchas to burn as incense. 
Cancamum.—fée suggests that the xéyxapoy or Kéykahor 
of the Greeks was probably a gum resin obtained from a plaut 
belonging to this order, and Sprengel suggests that it may 
have been the resin of a Gardenia. : 
If we refer to Dioscorides we find that he speaks of it as am 
Arabian gum, something like myrrh in appearance, used {ot 
fumigation on account of its fragrance, and administered medicl- 
nally to reduce corpulence and to cure-spleen, &c., and also % 
an emmenagogue ; it was applied locally to remove opacities of 
the cornea and improve the sight,-also to cure toothache; 
_ acording to Paulus Algineta it was considered to be Jaxative. 
We think there can be no doubt that this substance was the 
Kankahar, Katkahan, or Kaighaman of the Arabians, 4 kind of 
Rosin which they describe as having exactly the same properties 
as those attributed to Cancamum by Dioscorides.. Haji Zein 
the druggist (A.D. 1368) describes it as having the appeatane®. 
of Copal, and the Indian Mahometan writers on Materia Medics 
identify it with the Réla or Dhuna of India, which is Shore 
resi, and which is used throughout the East as incens® 
Pliny (12, 44) mentions Cancamum and Tarum (Aloe wood) 
on rere, from the country which produces cinnamom and 
cassia, and brought to Europe by the Nabatwan Troglodyt® 
a colony of the Nabatai, 
CEA. ; 
AC HTA, Tinn. 
