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described by Dioscoeides. The B. of Africa comes from Senegal and 

 Guinea, it is fm-nished by the B. af ricana,^ to ^yhich Adanson gave 

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

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

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

 from B. Muhul ;^ but these two plants are perhaps, it is said, only 

 forms of B. africana^ 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. Ehrenhergianimi yielding Myrrh 

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

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

 precious perfume, in part liquid, sj-rupy, 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 M'here it no longer exists ; it is in Arabia Felix it is actually 

 found. The Balm of Mecca, very rai"e and very little used in our 

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

 pentine or oleo-resin. The plant from which it is extracted was also 

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

 fi'uit, or Caijiohahamum^^ which enters into the fabrication of theriac. 

 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 

 Boswellia fhunfera,^ an Asiatic tree not specifically different from 

 B. serrata}^ But the aromatic gum-resin coming from this tree, 



' Biil.iamodcnâronafricanum Ans. in Ann. Nat. Oliv. Fl. imp. Afi: i. 326. — H. Bx. in DU-t. 



Hist. iii. (1839), 87.— Rosenth. op. cit. 862.— Enei/cl. des Se. Me'd. viii. 311, n 2.—B. giha- 



GuiB. he. cit. 514. — H. Bn. in Diet. Eiiciicl. Se. dense K. loc. cit. — DC. Prodi: ii. 76. — Bekg. in 



Méd.\\\\.5lO.—Oi.iy.Fl. trop. Afi:i.5ïô.—B. Bot. Zeit. (1862), l&Z.—Amyris Opobnlsinnum 



abyssitiimm, Beeo. in Bot. Zeit. (1862), 161. — B. Foesk. JEt;.-Arab. 79.— J. gileadensis L. Man- 



Schemperi Bero. loc. cit. 162.—B. Kotschyi tins. 65. — Protiiim ffilcadnisc Wight et AitN. 



Bebg. loc. cit. U2.—B. Kafal K. ?—B. Kafat. Prodr. i. 177 [Beehau of the Arabs). 



A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. Tent. i. \i^ .—Bcuddolia " P. Alp. Be Balsamo Dialog. (1591), trad. 



afrlcana Rich. Fl. Sen. Tent. i. 150, t. 39. fr. 76.— Gum. op. cit. 509. 



2 In Adansonia, \u. 379 ; viii. 55. 7 H. Bn. in Diet. Encijcl. Sc. Méd. viii. 312. 



3 Balsamodcndron Agulbocha Wight et AitN. ' GuiB. op. cit. 515. 



Prodr. i. 174. — H. Bx. in Diet. Encijcl. des Se. s In Jsiat. Res. ix. 317 ; xi. 158.— Roxb. Fl. 



Méd. viii. 313.— _B. Roxbtirghii Aen. — Amyris Ifid.W. 383. — Lindl. Fl. Med. 171. 



Commiphora Roxn. — A. JgallochaRoxB. — Com- m Stackii F.vtr. Briic. 19, t. 3.^ — DC. Prodr. 



miphora madagasenriensis Jacq. ii. 76, n. 3. — Pereira, in Med. Qaz. xx. 676 ; 



■■ Bahamodendron Mnkul Hook. f. — Rosenth. Elem. Mat. Med. ed. 4, ii. p. ii. 379.^H. Bn. in 



op.cit.?:G2[Googi.l,Gi(ggur,Mokiil olt\i<iVeTsid.n&) . Diet. Eneycl. Sc. Méd. x. 107. To this species 



' K. in.4««. jSc. iVJrf. ser. l,ii. 348. — Robenth. is itttiibuted the production of the substances 



op. cit. 861. — March, in Adansonia, viii. 54. — called Luban Maitie and Mor/i Madou: 



