204 DICTIONARY OF POPULAR NAMES GUM 



tries. It is largely imported into this country, the quantity in 

 1880 being 73,926 cwts., valued at £200,375, and used for 

 various purposes in the arts and manufactures, being extensively 

 employed for stiffening and giving lustre to crape, silk, and 

 other woven fabrics. 



Gum, British. {Sec Starch.) 

 Gum Cistus. {See Ladanum.) 



Gum Dragon, a name given in commerce to Gum Traga- 

 canth (which see). 



Gum Elemi. {Sec Jamaica Birch.) 

 Gum Euphorbium. {See Euphorbia.) 

 Gum Guaiacum. {See Lignum Vitae.) 

 Gum Kino {Pterocarpus marsupium), a tree of the Bean 

 family (Leguminoste), native of India, which, with P. erinaceus 

 of Western Africa, yields a gum. It is obtained by making 

 incisions in the bark, and is imported for tanning and dyeing. 

 A Gum Kino is also yielded by P. DaTbergioides, a large tree, 

 native of Burmah and the Andaman Islands, where it grows 

 to the diameter of 4 feet. Its wood is hard and similar to 

 mahogany. Butea frondosa and B. sicperha, East Indian legu- 

 minous trees, yield quantities of a reddish-coloured gum-resin, 

 known as Bengal Kino. {See Pulas.) 

 Gum Senegal. {See Gum Arabic.) 



Gum Tragacanth {Astragalus gummifei), a harsh, spiny, 

 low, wing-leaved leguminous shrub, native of desert and moun- 

 tainous regions of Western Asia. A gum issues from the stem 

 and branches spontaneously, and forms an article of commerce. 

 It is used in the arts as a substitute for glue. Tragacanth is 

 also produced in some of the Greek islands and other parts by 

 several allied species of Astragalus. 

 Gum Trees. {Sec Eucalyptus.) 

 Gunjah. {See Hemp.) 

 Gunny-bags. {See Jute.) 



Gutta-percha {Dichopsis gutta), a tree of the Star Apple 

 family (Sapotaceae), attaining a height of from 60 to 70 feet. 

 It has smooth, ovate, entire leaves, of a rusty-brown colour on 



