DRUGS. 



Styrax officinale. Linn. Officinal Storax. 



Linn. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. 



The root. 



Vernacular. Boe, By. Usturak, Arab. 



Habitat. Levant, Greece, Palestine, Syria. 



Remarks. This is the classical o-Tvpag, but now no balsam is obtained 

 from it, the Styrax of the London college being the balsam of quite an- 

 other tree, and the Rose malloes of the Bombay Tariff, to which correctly 

 belong the numerous eastern synonymes erroneously supposed to refer 

 to classical Styrax. The present tree is therefore incorrectly called Officinal 

 Storax. The root is used in Bombay like Eagle- wood, and yellow San- 

 dalwood as incense in the temples. See N. O.'s 143 and, 210 below 

 and " Gums and Resins." 



N. 0.129. ERICACEAE. HEATHWORTS. 

 Rhododendron lepidotum. Wall. 



Linn. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. 



The leaf. 



Vernacular. Tsaluma, Tsuma, of Bhoteas. Taleesfur, Northern 

 India. 



Habitat. Sikkim, Nepaul, Cabul ? 



Remarks. Royle states that Mafur, and Mafur-fooz, are assigned as. 

 its Greek synonymes in Persian works- Talisafar he also observes is the 

 Arabic name in Avicenna for the paKp of the Greeks and Macir of Pliny, 

 which has not yet been identified. The Taleesfur of the bazars certainly 

 cannot be referred to it. 



Rhododendron campanula!, um. Don. 



Linn. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. 



The leaf. 



Vernacular. Hoolas-kasmeeree, Burg-i-tibbut, Northern India. 



Habitat. Gossaing-Than in Nepaul : Kamaon : Thibet ? 



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N. O. 136. MYRSINACE^E. ARDISIADS. 

 Embelia Hibes. Sums.' 



Linn. Syst. Pentandria Monogynia. 



The fruit. 



Vernacular. Baibaruny, Waiwarung, Hind. Karkunnic, By. Vis- 



haul, Mai. Vellal, Tarn. Vayu-velanyam-chettu, Tel. 

 Habitat. India. 

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