names. 



142 STOBAX. 



1857. Liquid Storax annually extracted amounts to about 20,000 okes 

 Exportation of (500 cwt,) from the districts of Giova and Ulla and 13,000 okes 

 Liquid Storax. ^325 cwt.) from those of Marmorizza and Isgengak. 1 



9 It is exported in casks to Constantinople, Smyrna, Syra and 



Alexandria. Some is also packed with a certain proportion of 

 water in goat-skins and sent, either by boats or overland, to 

 Smyrna, where it is transferred to casks and shipped mostly 

 to Trieste. 



It appears from Mr. Maltass, that formerly the whole, both 

 of the resin and the residual bark, was bought by the 

 merchants of the island of Rhodes, but at what period and 

 under what circumstances this occurred, I have not been able 

 to learn. 2 



Eastern Though I have no pretensions to be an Oriental scholar, I 

 may be allowed to offer a few words respecting some of the 

 eastern names of Liquid Storax and the bark which remains 

 after its extraction. 3 



Liquid Storax is known to the Turks by the name^U *& *j* 

 Kara gTiyunluk yaghy, i.e., Black Frankincense Oil* It is also 

 called ^b j=: Bukhur yaghy, i.e. Incense Oil and sometimes 



(according to Mr. Maltass) ^l> <x)Uw Sigliala yagliy, i.e. Sighala 

 Oil, from the district between Melasso and Macri, where much 

 of it is collected. 



The Greeks designate it Srupaf vypa, but often use the 

 Turkish name Bulchur yagliy. 



1 In English commerce, forty okes are reckoned as equal to one hundred- 

 weight. 



2 Dr. Landerer's account appears to have reference to this period ; and 

 even his statement of the cultivation of the Storax plant (whatever plant is 

 intended) has some support from the following passage in Duhamel's Traite 

 des Arbres, t. ij. p. 288. 



" Au Levant on cultive anx environs de Stanchir [Cos], les arbres qui 

 donnent le Storax, et on les multiplie par marcottes." Dr. Landerer's 

 /Sot/XoCpi, it will also be observed, is traceable in the Turkish name bukhur. 



13 I will here acknowledge the assistance kindly afforded me by Dr. Green- 

 hill, the translator of Rhazes, on the subject of Arabic names ; and also that 

 of J. W. Redhouse, Esq. with regard to Turkish names. 



4 Olibanum is called in Turkish ci^ ghyunluk. 



