ORD. XXXVIT. Dumose. 60d 
With the assistance of mucilage it unites with water, so as to form 
a milky solution. It dissolves entirely in spirit of wine, and easily 
mixes with distilled oils, but less easily with those of the expressed. 
kind. Distilled without addition, it produces not only an empyreu- 
matic oil, of a pale dark colour, but sometimes a small portion of 
a saline matter, similar to that of the flowers of benzoine. 
This Balsam possesses the same general virtues with the former, 
and that of Peru; it is however less heating and stimulating, and 
may therefore be employed with more safety. It has been chiefly 
used as a pectoral, and is said to be an efficacious eorroborant in 
gleets and seminal weaknesses. It is directed by the Pharma- 
copeeias in the syrupus tolutanus, tinctura ete & syrupus 
balsamicus, 
COPAIFERA OFFICINALIS. BALSAM of COPAIVA TREE. 
Balsamum Copaiva. Pharm. Lond. Balsamum Copaibe. Pharm. Ed. 
SYNONYMA. Coapoiba. Maregr. bras. 130. Copaiba. Pis. 
Hist. Nat. et Med. p. 118. Arbre de Copau. | Labat, Nouv. 
voyage aux Isles de L’ Amerique, tom, ii. p. 365. Le Copahu. 
Barrere Hist. Nat. de la France equinoxiale. p. 40. Arbor bac- 
cHera Brasilien. &c. ait Hist. p. 1759. Copaifera offici- 
nalis. Jacquin Select. Siirp. Americ. p. 133. tab. 86. ed. 4 
p. 67. tab. 128. 
Class Decandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 542. 
Ess. Gen.Ch. Cal.0. Petala&, Legum.ovatum, ‘Sem. 1, arillo 
baccato. 
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