594 HAMAMELIDER. 
7 eestor iGileake (Ind), Neri-arishipp4l (Tam .), Shila- 
rasam (Tel.). 
History, Uses, &c.—Liquid storax is prepared in the 
South Western Districts of Asia Minor by boiling the inner 
bark of the tree in water and pressing it; a superior kind is 
said to be obtained by simply pressing he bark before it is 
boiled. We learn from the author of the Periplus of the 
Erythrean Sea that as long ago as the first century storax was 
exported via the Red Sea to India. 
About this time Silhaka (Silaras) is mentioned as one of the 
imports at the port of Thana on the Western Coast. It was 
carried first to this country and afterwards to China by Arab 
traders in the same manner as myrrh, olibanum, and other 
odoriferous drugs. Upon the decline of the port of Thana the 
trade was transferred to Surat, then to Goa, and afterwards to 
Bombay, where it still continues, the imports averaging from 
350 to 360 cwts. yearly. In the trade statistics of the early 
European traders it is called Rosa Mallas and Rosa Malloes, a 
name which it still retains, and the origin of which is doubtful, 
though some suppose it to be identical with Rasaméla, the 
Malay name for Altingia excelsa. That the latter supposition 
is incorrect we think there can be little doubt, as the only 
Rose malloes known in Bombay is that imported from Europe. 
The following extracts will, we think, show that the name is of 
Buropean origin, and has been applied to Liquid Storax incor- 
rectly through a confusion of that substance with the Honey ~ 
dew or Manna collected from trees, the 8pocspeds of the Greeks 
and the Ros melleus of the the Middle Ages. Galen, speaking 
of Spooduede says :— *T have sometimes known in summer 4 
large quantity of honey to be found upon the leaves of trees, 
shrubs and certain herbs.” 
Ibn Baitar, on the authority of Hubaish, says :—‘‘ Rasimilius 
is a substance which falls upon trees in Khorasan; it is useful 
in fevers, it moistens ~ chest, is detergent, &e.” The author 
of the Makhzan says :-—  Resingling j is a Greek name fora kind 
of oreaeeae called in Arabic ai ! “tt Se saa and 
