280 ODOROGRAPHIA. 
plant,—bark, leaves, and flowers,—gives out the most refreshing 
lemon-like fragrance.” 
The Lubin Meyeti is collected chiefly by the Abardagahala 
tribe of Soumalis. The season for piercing the trees from which 
it is produced is during the north-east monsoon in the months of 
July and August. 
This oleo-resin is shipped from the ports east of Karam, 45° 
41' E. long., to Egypt, Trieste, the Red Sea ports, and Bombay, a 
small portion only being consigned to the United Kingdom. 
The external appearance of Lubin Meyeti of the finest descrip- 
tion is on the whole very different from the various sorts of 
olibanum ; its bulk being not constituted of separate tears but of 
stalactitic masses. 
It is moreover different inasmuch as it is an oleo-resin, not a gum- 
resin. At a meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society, Nov. 1876, 
attention was drawn by the Curator of the Museum to a fine speci- 
men showing the peculiar papery bark on its under surface, and 
distinguished from other varieties of olibanum by a peculiar whitish 
efflorescence on its surface and stratified opaque white layers in its 
interior. 
West Arrican FRANKINCENSE. 
The tree furnishing this product is the Daniellia thurifera, 
Bennett. It is plentiful in the peninsula of Sierra Leone and 
circumjacent regions. In Sierra Leone it is called the “ Bungo 
tree.’ The mountainous districts to the westward of Freetown, 
and the wooded slopes in the neighbourhood of York, Lumley, and 
Gooderich, are the localities in which it principally abounds, 
although it has been observed on the banks of the Sherbro and 
other adjoining rivers. 
The frankincense-tree grows to a large size, and may be distin- 
guished without difficulty by the erect and stately trunk and 
beautiful foliage. When of advanced age its recognition is 
rendered still more certain by the peculiar grey or ash-like colour 
of the bark and massive divergent branches, which expand into a 
mass of foliage at an altitude of fifty or sixty feet from the 
ground to a considerable distance around. During the early 
years of growth, the young plant has the bark of a deep brown, 
which changes gradually in colour as it enlarges in magnitude. 
When of moderate size the entire circumference of the trunk is 
