GUMS, RESINS, OLEO-RESINS, ETC. 147 



P. juliflora, DC, of Jamaica, yielding the valuable 

 GUM MEZQUITE, now coming into use.* 

 Parkia, spp. 



PAPILIONACE^E. 



Astragalus gummifer, Labil., and other species of 

 south-west Asia, yielding the true TRAGACANTHf or 

 GUM DRAGON. 



DRUPACE^L 



Prunus and Amygdalus> spp., yield CHERRY GUM, 

 which is not used commercially. 



BIXACE.E. 



Cochlospermum Gossypium, DC., of India, the main 

 source of KUTEERA. 



ANACARDIACE^E. 



Anacardium occidentale, L., CADJII. 



Spondias mangifera^ Pers., HOG-GUM. 



Rhus Metopitim, L. 



Odina Wodier, Roxb., GlNG, KUNNEE, SHIMPTEU, 

 MOOI. Growing in Travancore and the Coromandel 

 Coast, and used in dyeing, cloth-printing, and Indian 

 ink, worth ios. to 305. per cwt. ; but containing a 

 large percentage of insoluble matter, so, perhaps, only 

 useful here to adulterate other gums. Nevertheless, 

 as Dr. George Watt says :J * The gums of India have 



* ' Pharm. Journ.,' vi (1875), p. 942. 



f P. J. Giraud, ibid.^ 1878, No. 405; ' Pharmacographia,' 

 p. 152. 



% ' Catalogue of Indian Exhibits : Colonial and Indian Ex- 

 hibition,' p. 137. Yet in 1886 we imported 33,581 cwt. of 

 ' unenumerated gums' from India, th'ice as much as from 

 Turkey. 



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