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gum-resin, of a red colour, much resembling 

 that known in the shops by the name of Kino, 

 and, for all medical purposes, fully as effica- 

 cious. Mr. White administered it to a great 

 number of patients in the dysentery, which 

 prevailed much soon after the landing of the 

 convicts, and in no one instance found it to 

 fail. This gum-resin dissolves almost entirely 

 in spirit of wine, to which it gives a blood- 

 red tincture. Water dissolves about one-sixth 

 part only, and the watery solution is of a bright 

 red. Both these solutions are powerfully as- 

 tringent. 



THE YELLOW RESIN TREE. 



This is about the size of an English walnut 

 tree. Its trunk grows pretty straight for about 

 fourteen or sixteen feet, after which it brandies 

 out into long spiral leaves, which hang down 

 on all sides, and resemble those of the larger 

 kinds of grass or sedge. From the center of 

 the head of leaves arises a single footstalk; eigh- 

 teen or twenty feet in height, perfectly straight 

 and erect, very much resembling the sugar 

 cane, and terminating- in a spike of a spiral 

 form, not unlike an ear of wheat. This large 

 stem or footstalk is used by the natives for mak- 

 ing spears and fish gigs, being pointed with the 

 teeth offish or otfier animals. 



% But the most valuable produce of this plant 

 seems to be its resin, the properties of which 



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