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the tree yielding it. Massoy Bark is produced on the west 1859. 

 coast of New Guinea. 



GALANGAL KOOT. Endeavour to procure the plant affording 

 this drug, which is imported from the south of China. 



ELEMI. This resin is abundantly produced in the forests of 

 the Philippines, where it often assists in giving a cheerful blaze 

 to the fire of the traveller. It is also exported from Manilla as 

 a drug. The tree that affords it is probably a Canarium, but it 

 is desirable to have complete specimens, in order to ascertain 

 the species with exactness. Elemi is also produced in Mexico, 

 where it is known as Copal. It occurs in commerce in scraped 

 pieces, which are semi-cylindrical, yellowish, semi-opaque, and 

 having the usual strong and fragrant odour of Elemi. This 

 drug is the produce of Elaplirium elemiferum, Royle, a tree 

 occurring near Oaxaca, of which specimens are requested in 

 order that it may be further examined and described. There 

 are other resins, of whose origin little is known, which have 

 been imported from Mexico, Brazil, and other parts of tropical 

 America as Elemi. 



CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. 



SARSAPARILLA. The species of Smilax, the roots of which 

 constitute the various sorts of sarsaparilla found in commerce, 

 are very imperfectly known. Good botanical specimens, com- 

 prising flowers, fruits, and leaves, and accompanied by the 

 stem and roots, should be carefully preserved, and transmitted to 

 England for determination. The so-called Jamaica Sarsaparilla 

 grows near the Chiriqui Lagoon, in the state of Costa Rica, and 

 a species very similar, if not identical with it, at Bajorque, on 

 the Rio Magdalena, New Granada. Other sorts of sarsaparilla 

 are produced in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Brazil, &c. 

 That of Guatemala grows in the department of Sacatepeques in 

 that state. 



RHATANY ROOT. A variety of this drug has been exported 

 of late years from Savanilla, in New Granada. Obtain 

 specimens of the plant from which it is derived. 



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