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MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 24.] DECEMBER. [1888. 
LXX.—INHAMBANE COPAL. 
(Copaifera Gorskiana, Benth.) 
The term copal i is commercially applied to various hard gum 
yielded by certain she um eal and sub-tropical trees. In the iei vot 
eases copal is obtained in a scmi-fossil state on land where no trees at 
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other eases what may be termed recent copal is a gum-resin in a com- 
paratively fresh state odisetad from living trees or from trees in a state 
There are numerous commercial distinctions between varieties of 
opal. It is unnecessary here to do more than draw attention to some 
of oo chief plants yielding these substances. Zanzibar copal, or Anime, 
the most valuable of any now used in commerce, is obtained from 
Tr etre tak T rie pi E Sierra Leone copal is derived 
from Copaifera Guibourtiana, Bent What are known as Lis 
copal, recent and fosssil; pebbly as from i on the Gold Coast, 
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