138 STORAX. 



1857. United States, in Mexico, and in other parts of Central 



America. 



Liquid storax However capable that tree may be of producing an analogous 

 "the Levant!" res i n > ^ is well ascertained that the Liquid Storax used in 

 England is all imported from the Levant ; and there are suffi- 

 cient reasons to conclude that such is also the case with that 

 used on the continent, and that it is certainly not the produce of 

 America. I therefore dismiss the supposition that the Liquid 

 Storax of commerce is of transatlantic origin. 



4. By some authors, Liquid Storax has been conjectured to be 

 the produce of Liquidamlar altingiana, Blume. 



This tree is a native of the islands of the Indian Archipelago 

 and of Burmah, where the inhabitants occasionally extract from 

 it an odoriferous semi-fluid resin ; but the product is not abund- 

 ant, nor does it resemble the Liquid Storax of commerce ; there 

 is not moreover, the slightest evidence of it reaching Europe in 

 any quantity. 



It is, however, a curious fact that the name by which this tree 

 is at the present day known to the Malays, is Rasamdla, a word 

 very close to Petiver's Rosa Mallas. To this I shall revert in a 

 future page. 



5. Liquidanibar orientate, Miller, is regarded by Guibourt, 

 Lindley, the authors of the French Codex, and some others, as 

 the source of Liquid Storax, an opinion which I shall be able to 

 show to be correct. 



Having brought under review the various opinions current as 



to the origin of Liquid Storax, and stated the points on which 



I consider them erroneous, I will now proceed to communicate 



the information which I have myself received regarding the 



Personal drug from three valued correspondents in the Levant, namely, 



Information Sidney H Maltass, Esq. of Smyrna, Lieut. Kobert Campbell, 



RK, H.B.M. Consul in the island of Rhodes, and Dr. James 



McCraith, of Smyrna. 



The information is still not quite perfect, but in all essential 

 particulars I believe the following is a correct account of the 



