144 STORAX. 



1857. ultingiana Bl.) that is here intended, and whether the Rosa 

 Mallas of Petiver and the Eose Malloes of the Bombay List are 

 but corruptions of the same term applied to a different sub- 

 stance, are points which I shall not attempt to decide. 



The residual bark after the extraction of the Liquid Storax, 

 is known to pharmacologists as Cortex Thymiamatis, Cortex 

 Thuris, Tims Judceorum, Narcaplithum, Storax Bark or Red 

 Storax?- and is called in Turkish ^LjJ> cjl>^ xj Kara gliyunluk 

 yaprak or more correctly .e^W eld^ y Kara gluyunluk 

 yapraghi, literally Black Frankincense Leaf. 



In modern Greek it is known by the simple name of Srupaf. 



The name Qvpiapa (Incense) does not appear to have any 

 special application to Liquidambar Bark. 



Belon has asserted that this bark is called Maurocapno* and 

 Greek names, authors have quoted the name on his authority. I cannot but 

 think this an error; Maupb KCLTTVO signifies literally Black 

 Smoke, and in modern Greek it is used by metonymy for Black 

 Tobacco. It does not appear to be now applied to the Liquid- 

 ambar bark. 



The name NaWa<0ov or NapfcacfrOov used by Dioscorides to 

 designate a certain odoriferous bark from India, 3 has 'been 

 thought by many authors to have reference to the modern 

 Cortex Thymiamatis. But if the latter were collected in the 

 days of Dioscorides, that author, a native of Asia Minor, could 

 scarcely have been so ignorant of the locality of its production, 

 as to have regarded it as an Indian drug. Moreover, neither 

 the names Nda/ca^oy nor NdpKacfrQov (nor KaK.a$Qov used by 

 Paul us ^Egineta 4 perhaps for the same substance) are known in 

 modern Greek. I confess therefore I do not see evidence for 



1 Amygdaloid Storax is also sometimes called Red Storax. 



2 " Je vei aussi descharger vn brigantin dessus la riue du port [de Rhodes], 

 plein d'vne drogue propre en medecine, appellee Storax rouge. Les Grecs la 

 nomment maintenant Maurocapno. Et m'a Ion dit qu'il croist en 1'isle." 

 Belon, Observations de plvsievrs Singvlaritez &c. (1554) liv. 2. chap. 14. 



3 Nao-Ka^^oi/, ot Se vdpKa(f)6ov, Kal TOVTO e'/e TTJS 'ivftiKrjs KO/uffrac can &e 

 (f)\oiwdfs } (rvKapivov \f frier p-atriv eoiKoy, &ufj.id)p.evov dta TTJV 

 p.iyv\ip.fvov rois (TKCvaaTiKois QvpidncKri, w(j)(\ovv Koi ^rpav 

 \nro6vfjnaa6tv. Diosc. de Mat. Med. ed. Sprengel, lib. i. c. 22. 



4 Lib. 7. c. 22. 



