160 UMBELLIFERAE. 
levogyre.”? (Confer. Hirschsohn Phar. Lettscrift fiir Russ 
April 15, 1875, p. 225.) i 
Commerce.~- All the Ammoniacum which reaches Bombay 
comes from Persia. 
Value, about Re. } per }b: 3 
The root is also imported from Persia. Value, Rs. 41 
Rs. 5 per Bombay maund of 28 lbs. . 
DOREMA AUREUM, Stocks. 
Fig.— Hocker’s Jour. of Botany, iv., p. 149. 
ci Hab.—Beluchistan. 3 Te i 
The gum-resin of this plant, gathered by Dr. Stock 
Beluchistan, is described as being an opaque cream-co 
substance, closely resembling in taste, smell and gen 
appearance the ammoniacum of commerce. We have 
enquiries for it in the Sind bazars, but cannot find that 
anywhere an article of commerce. ; 
SAGAPENUM. 
Vernacular.—No Indian names. Sagbingj (Arad. I 
bazars), Iskabinah (Pers.). ee 
' History, Uses, &c.—'This drug is supposed to be 
juice of Perula Szovitsiana, DC., but there appears to 
record of its collection from that plant. Aitchison spea 
F’, Szovitsiana as a rigid herb, scarcely two feet high; co 
in the stony country and gravelly plains of the Hari-rud valle 
the root stock of which possesses a slight odour of asafé 
“The fruit frequently present in commercial sagapenum i 
lw in shape to that of F. galbaniflua, but larger and - 
yellow colour. ge 
_ Sagapenum was known to the Greeks, and throug 
the early Arabian writers probably became acquainted w 
medicinal properties. Dioscorides speaks of it as the j 
@ feralaceons plant growing in Media, and says that 1 
odour between that of silphium and gulbanum, whence 
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