_g h AMYRIDACEiE. [Hypogtnous Exogens. 



the similarity of this plant with that described by Kempthorne and Malcolmson, and 

 which has been shown by them to yield the Olibanum of commerce. 



Dr. Stocks has shown that Googul, or Guggur of the Belooches, and the Mokul of 

 the Persians, is the Bdellium of the Greeks, and is produced m Scmde by the 

 Balsamodendron Mukul of Hooker. The Afghans mix the resin with bajree floui 

 and make it into cakes, which they give their horses when they have a cold The 

 resin is also burnt as an incense, and " mixed with the mortar and plaster used in the 

 construction of houses of a somewhat superior description, when durability is an 

 ob\e C L"-Hookers Journ. BoL, I. 261. The same author mentions a Bayee Balsam, 

 from Balsamodendron pubescens, tasteless, inodorous, and brittle, almost entirely 



soluble in water. . . , , . , • • 



Boswellia papyrifera is said to be one of the most remarkable trees in Abyssinia, 

 where it is called Makker or Maker. It yields a fragrant transparent lemon-coloured 

 resin, used as incense; but is chiefly remarkable for the bark peeling off into thin 

 whit; layers, which were actually employed by Quartin-Di Ion and Schimper for 

 packing their dried plants in and sendingthem to Europe.-^or Abyss., 1. 148. The 

 same peculiarity in the bark has been observed by Dr Stocks in his Balsamodendron 

 pubescens; he says it separates in large rolls much resembling those of Betula 

 Bhoojpootra. 



