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Remarks on the most important Plant-Societies of the Island. 



shows liow the incense is collected. In one side of the trunk, bark and also parts of the wood are con- 

 stantly cut away. Rich masses of odorous styrax-balm pour out to the surface of the wound formed in 

 this way. Within a long time a new portion of resinous chips of wood and bark may be collected. They 

 are dried and burnt without any more preparation in the censers of the churches under the name of 



Fig. 84. Yoimg' Growth of Liquidanibar styracifiua at Hag. Xeophj'tos. 



Ka-!zi'.(j<x'x. The two convent gardens mentioned here and especially that of Hag. Neophytes procure incense 

 not only for themselves to use, but also to most of the other churches of the island. The convent garden 

 of Hag. Neophytes is situated a little below the convent itself, near the village Tala. When I visited 

 the place in 1905 there Avere 30 trees of a middle size, forming a luxuriant shrubbery and appearing to 



