TEREDINTHACEJ^. 295 



described by Dioscoetdes. The B. of Africa comes fi-om Senegal and 

 Guinea, it is furnislied by the B. africana^ to ■n'liich Adaxson gave 

 the name of Niottout. According to Hooker and Marchand" the 

 origin of the two other kinds of BdcUimn is as follows : that of India 

 comes from B. Agullocha^ and that of Scinde is obtained by incision 

 from B. Mukul ; * but these two plants are perhaps, it is said, only 

 forms of B. ufricana, their product only being modified by the method 

 of collection and extraction. This conclusion will not be at all ex- 

 traordinary, if we admit that B. Ehrcnhergiamiin yielding Myrrh 

 is also only a form of B. Opohahamum^ (fig. 277-279), the tree 

 yielding the Balm of Mecca, of Gilead, of Judea, or of Cairo ; that 

 precious perfume, in part liquid, syrupj-, whitish or slightly tawny, 

 with a very aromatic and bitter taste, cultivated, it is said, formerly 

 in Judea, and then in Egypt, whence the tree had been transported, 

 but where it no longer exists ; it is in Ai-abia Felix it is actually 

 found. The Balm of Mecca, very rare and verj^ little used in our 

 time, should rather, such as it is at present, take the name of tur- 

 pentine or olco-ri'sin. ,The plant from which it is extracted was also 

 formerly valued for its wood, or Xijlohalsiununi,^ and its aromatic 

 fi'uit, or Caiyohalsamum," Avhich enters into the fabrication of theriae. 

 Incense or Oliban,^ whose true origin was so long unknown, and 

 which was believed especially to come from India, had been, at the 

 commencement of this century, attributed by Colebrooke to 

 BoswclUa thurifcra,^ an Asiatic tree not specifically different from 

 B. setTata.^'^ But the aromatic gum-resin coming from this tree, 



' lidhaiii'idciuh-dn africanum Ars. in Ann. Nat. Olit. Fl. trap. Afr. \- 32G. — H. Bx. in Diet. 



Hist. iii. (1839), 87.— Rosenth. op. cit. 862.— Encijd. rle.i Sc. Med. Tiii. 311, n. 2.—S. gilm- 



GuiR. he. cit. b\i. — n. B.\. in Diet. Miicijcl. Sc. dense K. loc. cit. — DC. Fioilr. ii. 76. — Bekg. in 



J/crf. viii. 310.— Oliv. i^/. <)-o/). 4//-. i. 32.5.— i?. Bot.Ztit. (1862), l&i.—Ami/ris Opobnlsmnnm 



alii/ssiiiicuiii, Beko. in Hot. Zfit. (1862), 161. — 1>. FoiisK. JEg.-Arab. 79.— J. r/i/enr/ciisis L. Jfiiii- 



Schemperi Beso. loc. cit. 162. — B. Kotschi/i tiss. 65. — Protiiim gileaihnse WicHT et Aun'. 



Beuo. loc. cit. 162.— i(. Kafat K. ?— B. Knfnt. Prodi: i. 177 {Bcchiin of the Arab.s). 



A. Rich. Fl. Ahyxs. Tent. i. H9.—IIciidelotia ' P. Alp. De Balsmnn Dialog. (1591), trad. 



afriemm Rich. Fl. Sen. Tent. i. 150, t. 39. fr. 76.— Gi-ik. op. cit. 509. 



- In Adonsoniit, vii. 379 ; viii. 55. 7 II. Bn. in Diet. Encgcl. Sc. Mid. viii. 312. 



■J Balsamndeiidrtm AijiMochii Wight et Aux. ' Gum. op. cit. 515. 



Prodr. i. 17-1.— H. Bx. in Diet. Encgcl. dcs Sc. ' In Asiat. lies. ix. 317 ; xi. 158.— Roxn. Fl. 



Med. viii. 313.— 7(. Ro.r!inrglni Aux. — Amgiis I„d. ii. 383.— Lixdl. Fl. Med. 171. 



Commip/iora Roxn. — A. Agalloc/ia 'RoxB, — Com- '" Stackii /;'.(()■. Brnc. 19, t. 3. — DC. Prodr. 



miphora madagascariensis jAca. ii. 76, n. 3. — Rekeiua, in Med. Octs. xx. 676 ; 



■* Baliamodendran Mii/cid llooK. F. — Ro.sexth. Elem. Mat. Mtd. ed. 4, ii. p. ii. 379. — II. Bx. in 



c^.cit.i6'l{Googtil,Gnggur,Mokulolt\iaVeTi\siVi9,). Did. Fiicgrl. Sc. Mid. x. 107. To this spcciea 



' K. in.i<M«. iS'c. JV«(. ser. l,ii. 348. — Rorexth. is iittributcd the production of tho substances 



op. cit. 861. — Makcii. in Adansonia^ viii. 54. — culled Luban Jlaitic and Morh Madow. 



