434 SlNO-lRANICA 



Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-88) in his K'un yti t*u $wo ty H [3 1, and 

 was hence adopted in the pharmacopoeia of the Chinese, for it figures 

 in the Pen ts'ao kan mu & i. 1 The Chinese Gazetteer of Macao 2 mentions 

 pa 'r-su-ma aromatic B W ? Ok W as a kind of benjoin. In this case 

 we have a transcription of Portuguese bdlsamo. 



1 Ch. 6, p. 19. See, further, WAITERS, Essays on the Chinese Language, p. 339. 



2 Ao-men li lio, Ch. B, p. 41 (cf. WYLIE, Notes on Chinese Literature, p. 60). 



