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

 Guinea, it is fuxnislied by tbe B. africana,^ to which Adam-son gave 

 the name of Niottout. Accordiag to Hooker and Maechand^ the 

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

 comes from B. Agallocha^ and that of Soinde is obtained by incision 

 from B. Mukul ; * 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. Ehrenbergianum yielding Myrrh 

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

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

 precious perfume, iu part liquid, syrupy, whitish or slightly tawny, 

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

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

 but where it no longer exists ; it is in Arabia Felix it is actually 

 found. The Balm of Mecca, very rare 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 Xylobalsamum^^ and its aromatic 

 fruit, or CarpohaUamum^ 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 Colebeooke to 

 Boswellia thurifera,^ an Asiatic tree not specifically different from 

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



1 Bahcnnodendron africanmn Arn. in Ann. Nat, Oliv. Fl. trap. Afr. i. 326. — H. Bn. in Diet. 



Rial. iii. (1839), 87.— Eosenth. op. cit. 862. — Enctjel. dea So. MM. viii. 311, n. 2.—B. gilea- 



GuiB. loe. eit. 514. — H. Bn. in Diet. Eneyel. Sc. denee K. loc. cit. — DC. Prodr. ii. 76. — Bekg. in 



Mid. viii. 310.— Oliv. Fl. trap. Afr. i. 325.— .B. Bot. Zeit. (1862), \^Z.—Amyria 



abyaainieum, Bebo. in Bot. Zeit. (1862), 161. — B. Foesk. Sg.-Arai. 79.— A. gileadensia L. Man- 



Schemperi Beko-. loc. cit. 162. — B. Kotaohyi tiaa. 65. — Protium gikadenae Wight et Amr. 



Beeg. loc. eit. 162.— .B. Kafal K. ?— B. Kafat. Prodr. i. 177 {Bechau of the Arabs). 



A. Rich. Fl. Abyaa. Tent. i. U^.—Heudelotia ^ P. A.lp. Be Balaamo Dialog. (1591), trad. 



africaiia Eich. Fl. Sen. Tent. i. 150, t. 39. fr. 76.— Guib. op. eit. 509. 



3 In Adanaonia, vii. 379 ; viii. 55. 7 H. Bn. in Diet. Eneycl. So. Med, viii. 312. 



3 Balaamodendron Agalboeha Wight et Akn. ' Guib. op. cit. 515. 



Prodr. i. 174. — H. Bn. in Diet. Eneycl. dea Sc. ' In Jaiat. Sea. ix. 317 ; xi. 158.— Eoxb. Fl. 



Med. viii. 313. — B. Soxiurghii Ans. — Amyria Ind, ii. 383. — Lindl. Fl. Med. 171. 



Commiphora RoxB. — A. Agallocha Eoxb. — Com- i» Stackh Extr. Bruc. 19, t. 3. — ^DC. Prodr, 



miphora madagaacarienais 3 acq. ii. 76, n. 3. — Febeiea, in Med. Qaz. xx. 676 ; 



■* Balaamodendron Mukul Hook. p. — Eosenth. Elem. Mat. Med. ed. 4, ii. p. ii. 379. — H. Bn. in 



■op.cit.862{Googul,Guggur,Mokuloith.e'PeiBiam). Diet. Eneycl. Sc. M^d. x. 107 . To this species 



* K. in jl««. 1%. iVa<. ser. l,ii.348, — Eosenth. is attributed the production of the substances 



op. cit. 861. — March, in Adanaonia, viii, 54. — called Zuban Maitie and Morh Madow. 



