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tained, by incision, from Styrax officinale, and perhaps from 

 Liquidambar orientalis, in round cakes, hard, brownish red, 

 mixed with whitish or yellowish fat grains, breaking under the 

 finger, smells like balsam of Peru, bitter, stimulant, expectorant, 

 gr. X to 3jss. From the Levant. 



Styrax calamita, .S. in vesicis. Scobs styracina. In bladders, 

 unctuous, marbled on the inside, easily melted, smells like ben- 

 jamin ; used in perfumes. From the Levant. 



Drop storax, Stoma- en fjrains^ Styrax in granis. In white, 

 transparent grains, softening between the fingers, smells very 

 agreeable but slight. — Strained storax, Styrax colata, Storax 

 heated till it softens, and then passed between heated iron 

 plates; lib. storax, warmed in bags, and pressed between iron 

 plates, so hot, that they are nearly sufficient to make water hiss, 

 yields two oz. and a half of strained storax. — Storax purificata, 

 Storax dissolved in spirit of wine, the solution strained and eva- 

 porated to a proper consistence. 



Tacamahac in the shell, Tacamahaca. From Fagara 

 octandra: imported in gourds, greenish, soft, smells of lavender, 

 taste aromatic, cephalic, nervine, externally suppurative, astrin- 

 gent ; used in fumigations. 



Tacamahac in the lump, Bahamum Fncot. From Populus 

 'balsamifera ; greenish yellow, in tears run into a mass; sweet 

 scented : stomachic. — Bonrhon tacamahaca, T. Mauritiana, T, 

 rrra, C. P. ; from Calophyllum inophyllum, now C. tacamahaca. 



Balsam of Tolu in cakes, Baume de Carthagene, Balsamum 

 Tolufanvm in placentis. Red, solid, liaving been dried in the air ; 

 nervine, cephalic, anti-asthmatic : used for balsam of Tolu in 

 gourds or jars. From Peru. 



Dark yellow gum. Botany bay ynm, Gummi flamim^ \. S. 

 ll\ Gummi resina acaroidis ; from the base of the leaves of Xan- 

 thorrha?a hastilis, or Acarois resinifera of New South Wales : 

 antidysenteric, and employed to unite the lips of wounds, however 

 large or dangerous ; also to compose a cement ; resembles gam- 

 boge, but darker, not entirely soluble in alcohol, the remainder 

 not soluble nor difl'usible in water. 



Light yellow oum. Resembles yellow arsenic, gives water 

 the smell of storax, but is not soluble in it ; 2 oz. out of 5 are 

 soluble in alcohol, the solution is glutinous, what remains is 

 astringent and soluble in water, taste pleasant. Hoth burn as 

 freely as rosin, and smell, when burning, like balsam of Peru. — 

 Bhe yum. From the Kvania resinifera of Botany bay. 



Tui'E TARNISH BKsiN. Yicklcd by tlw T'Tniinalia vcrnix ; 

 used by the Chinese in varnish. 



