262 BALSAM TREES OF SCINDE. 
the dregs are thrown away. This solution of the gummy part, which 
according to Newman's analysis should be six drachms, two scruples 
in every ounce, is mixed with the lime, and employed with confidence 
to make the plaster adhere strongly, and to prevent it from crumbling 
and splitting. The Googul water is sometimes washed over the walls 
by itse 
The ams on Materia Medica, by Ainslie, Royle, Pereira, Lindley, 
O’Shaugnessy, Guibourt, &c., may be referred to for additional par- 
ticulars ; and besides these, Bdellium, Googul, or Indian Myrrh is 
noticed in— 
1. Utraz UpwrivEH. No. 864. Khuzlaf, A; n. 968. Durukht, P. 
Dowm A; (the Tree), n. 1388. Mukul. A. P. n. 222.  4flatoon 
(Plato!) Googul. H. n. 408. Budliyoon (Bdellium !) (the Gum). 
TALEEF SHEREEF. No. 809.  Googul. n. 944. Mukul. 
. FonskAHL, Materia Medica Kahirina, p. 158. “Bdellium. Sumugh 
Mukul Azruk (meaning Mukul gum of a colour like bluish-grey eyes, 
—glaucopsoia) est Myrrha imperfecta." 
ARRIAN ; Expeditio Alexandri, lib. vi. cap. xxii, kai èv rij épype 
ravTn, Aéyet Apioróßovňos, k.r.A., being the first of the four plants men- 
tioned by him as growing in the desert of the Gadroü (Beloochistan, 
towards Mekran); the other three being (in the order he gives them) 
asonia—nova species—“ T., — affinis, sed foliis inciso-ser- 
ees distinctissima: ” cel : e£ 'amiciss: Hooker in litt. 2. Rhizophora 
mucronata, Ceriops Candolleana, Drapes Rheedit, and Avicennia to- 
mentosa, (as to the general features), and Ægiceras fragrans (as to 
the flower). 4. Euphorbia neriifolia. I reserve the proofs of these 
statements for a future communication. 
. MaKHZAN-EL-ADWIYEH. For the following translation of a portion 
of the article “ Mukul” in the Makhzan-el-Adwiyeh (** Magazine" 
of Medicines) of Mohammed Hosayn Khan (from the Persian of the 
Calcutta Quarto Edition) I am indebted to Lieut. Burton of the 
Scinde Survey, than whom no one is more competent to overcome 
the difficulties of a corrupted text and an obscure author :— 
“ Mukl. In Puryàni (Syriac) Mukla, in Rumi (Greek) Budliyún 
in Arabic Kafr (Bitumen or Pitch,—called also Kafr ul Yahud or Jews 
Pitch), and Kawar, in Persian Bf Tahúdán (the Jew's perfume— 
because that people use it in fumigation), in Hindustani Gúgal. 
“Jt is the gum of a large tree about the size of a (Olibanum) 
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