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CHAPTER XIII. 
LIGN-ALOES.—PATCHOULI.—VETIVER.—CAMEL GRASS.— 
HENNAH. 
OrIENTAL LIGN-ALOES. 
AN enquiry into the history of Lign-aloes shows that an odor- 
iferous substance bearing the name of Ahalim or Ahaloth was 
known to the ancient Jews*, which in the Greek was called addons Ft, 
also at a later date “ Agallochon” by the Greeks and Romans. 
The Arabs corrupted the term into Agha-likhi, Agulugin, and 
Yelunjooj, but subsequently adopted the terms Ood or Add, 
meaning “ wood,” and Atd-hindi, “ Indian wood,” as technical 
names for Aloes-wood. In Sanskrit it is called Agaru, from which 
is derived the Western Hindi name Agar, Aggur, etc. In Persian, 
it is Owd-hindee; in Malay, Garu ; in Siamese, Nwahmi; in 
Chinese, Niaw-cha; and in Portuguese, Poa d’Agila. It is known 
in English as Eagle-wood, Aloe-wood, Oriental Lign-aloes, and by 
the old commercial and pharmacological names Lignum Aquilz, 
Agallochum, and Agallage. 
Indian Lign-aloes or “ Kagle-wood” is obtained from the 
Aquilaria Agallocha identified and described by Roxburgh {. It 
is a native of the mountainous districts to the east and south-east 
of Silhet (especially on the Jaintiya Hills), the most easterly pro- 
vince of Bengal, in about lat. 24°-25° N. The order Aquilarinee 
only comprises three (supposed) species of the genus Agquilaria, 
* Ps. xlvy. 8; Prov. vii. 17; Song of Sol. iv. 14. 
t John xix. 39. adé s, meaning “ wood of” aloe. 
{ Fi. Ind. ii. p. 422; Trans. Linn. Soe. xxi. p. 199, where it is figured; and 
De Cand, Prodr. xiv. p. 601. 
