156 UMBELLIFERA. 
Commerce.—Galbanum is imported from Persia into Bom 
‘bay. It is collected in the Hari-rud Valley and Badg 
( Aitchison) ; it is also said to be collected between Shiraz 
Kirmén. e imports are very irregular, most of it is_ 
exported to Egypt and Turkey. Average value, Rs. 
maund of 374 lbs. 
DOREMA AMMONIACUM, DPozn. 
Fig.—Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd Ser. Bot. Vol. iii. Pt. 
24, 25 ; Jaub. et Spach. Ill. Pl. Or. L., t. 40. 
Hab.—Persia, Afghanistan. The gum-resin. 
Vernacular.—Ushak (Arab., Pers.,. Indian bazors\ i : 
(Afghan). 
History, Uses, &c.—'This plant and D. glabrum, 
et Mey., both natives of Persia, are known to produce | 
resin, but, according to Aitchison, that of the former 
alone collected. Of the latter plant he says: It yields a y 
gum-resin ; but I did not hear of its being collected ; it is¢ 
Kema-i-dsp (horse Kema). Dioscorides speaks of am 
cum as the juice of a narthex growing about Cyrene in 
and it appears to have derived its name from the te 
Ammon. Pliny + derives it from ‘Ammos,’ sand. Mos 
and Latin writers on medicine mention its use in fami 
and speak of itas Thus Libyeum, Ammontacum thym 
Ammoniacum suffimen. This. kind of ammoniacum has 
been ascertained to be the gum-resin of Ferula Ti 
Tinn., which grows in Morocco. It was probably the 
kind known in Europe in olden times. (Confer. Phat 
came into use cannot be exactly fixed. 
* Diose. mepi apzponaxod, iii., 89. It hes hcaicomgilic nit e 
cially in enlargements of the liver- and spleen. Serib. Co 
Persian ammoniacum has a a — mae . 
Tt 24, 14. Lg a 
