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name of Balsamodendron Mukul, rather than of ** Googul," which latter 
appellation is clearly given to three different plants. My only doubt 
has been whether I shall not refer it to B. Myrrha of Nees (repre- 
sented in Royle's valuable ‘ Manual of Materia Medica," p. 339, 
g. 56,) from Gison; on the borders of Arabia Felix, from which 
shrub Ehrenberg and Hemprich collected “some very fine Myrrh.” 
The flowers, indeed, were not known, but the figure is a very good 
representation of the fruiting state of the plant, so far as can be judged 
without the aid of analysis. Dr. Royle justly remarks “that the whole 
of the species of the genus require to be carefully examined from good 
and authentic specimens, accompanied by their respective products, 
before the several doubts can be resolved.’ Dr. Stocks is happily 
placed for carrying out such investigations, and he has fulfilled Dr. 
Royle’s injunctions most e DEI in the present instance, both in 
descriptive matter and fi 
I may here add that iis Hondelatia Africana, Guill. et Perot. Flora 
Senegambize (Balsamodendron, Arnott) is a species having great affinity 
to our B. Stocksii; but it differs essentially in the very long tubular calyx, 
and fee “ African Bdelliwn," or that imported into France from 
Guinea and Senegal, according to Perrotet. This would appear to be the 
Md" described by Adanson, (Travels in Senegal,) as yielding a kind 
of Bdellium. Of all this group of useful gum-resins (Balsamodendra) it 
may be said that "this African species and the Scinde species are the 
only ones yet satisfactorily ascertained to the present day.]—Ep. 
l. Tug Muxut or Gooaut Tres. (Tab. VIIL) 
The gum-resin Googul has had its synonyms traced out by Sprengel 
in Hist. Rei Herbarie I. 272, followed by Ainslie in Materia Indica 
I. 29, and Royle in Illustr. Botany Himal. Mount. p. 176. It is the 
Mukul of the Persians and Arabians, and ihe Bdellium (88eXuov) of 
Dioscorides and (?) Genesis ii., 12 ; Numbers xi. 7. 
There has always been, however, some degree of uncertainty about 
the tree from which it is obtained. 
It is unnecessary here to dwell on the idea of Keempfer (Amoenitates, 
p. 668) that it is produced by the Borassus flabelliformis, or of Mat- 
thiolus, that it comes from the Chamerops humilis. Moreover it has no 
connection with the Googul of the Coromandel Coast, which is the 
Koonder gum from the Boswellia glabra, Ainslie I. 136. 
