8 MEMOIR OF DANIEL HANBURY. 



storax. STORAX, begun in 1854, continued in 1857, and further 

 considered in 1863, was an original research which was 

 never absent either from his mind or notes. To elucidate 

 its history formed one of the intentions of his travels in 

 France and in the Holy Land. The solid Storax had 

 been attributed, and Hanbury thought correctly, to the 

 Slyrax officinale, a plant answering exactly to the one 

 ioscorides. described by Dioscorides. Other authors, specially 

 Duhamel and the Abbe Mazeas, confirmed this opinion. 

 Repeatedly, Hanbury failed to obtain personal and ocular 

 demonstration of the fact. " I am bound (he writes, 

 1863) to acknowledge that the endeavours I have 



solid hitherto used to obtain the resin from trees in the South 

 of France, Asia Minor, and Syria, have not been suc- 

 cessful. In Syria it is now rare to find the Styrax 

 forming anything better than a large bush, owing to the 

 practice of cutting it periodically for fuel ; and although 

 I have myself examined many small bushes, I have failed 

 to find upon their stems any exudation." 



Great therefore was his exultation when walking in 

 his brother's garden at Mortola, near Mentone (Dec 9, 

 1874), to find and to be able to collect some resin of 

 Styrax officinale which exuded from the stem of a 

 young tree. 



Liquid With regard to Liquid Storax, continued investi- 

 gations led him to assign it to Liquidambar orientale, 

 Mill, not without the matter having been the subject of 

 much controversy. James Pettiver had given a minute 

 account of the collection of the liquid variety, stating 

 that it was obtained from the island Cobross, at the 

 upper end of the Red Sea. Dr. Landerer, of Athens, 

 ascribed it to the Styrax officinale, and placed the spot 

 of its production at Cos and Rhodes. The island 



