ON THE NATURE AND MODE Of PRODUCTION 

 OF 



AGALLOCHUM OR ALOES-WOOD. 



BY I. DE LOUREIRO. 



[Translated from the Portuguese.]* 



E find by the works of Dioscorides, Ori- 

 Basius, and P. Aegyneta, that the vegct ble 

 production, commonly called Aloes-wood, has been 

 known time immemorial, and that it was in use 

 among the Greeks under the name of Agallochon, 

 in latter times under that of Xylaloe. The Ro- 

 mans called it Lignum Aloes and Agallochum. 

 Pliny mentions it under the name of Tarum. 

 The Arabian naturalists adopted the greek deno-i 

 , mination and called it Agalugin. Of these Avi- 



* Memorias da Academia Real das Sciencias de Litboa, Vol I. 



p. 4C2— 415. 



