88. 
the privilege to the Arabs. But a sample of x: received from 
Vaughan in 1852 . proved it to be wbat different from 
typical myrrh." According to the same enihotities (l.c. p. 146) both 
Somali myrrh and Fadhli m yrrh give a violet tint when bromine is: 
added to a petroleum solutio 
Hanbury EP AHRabeutconl Journal, xii. p. 227) thus describes the 
specimen ab&ined by Vaughan ** produced 40 tiles to =- eastward of 
Aden ” :—“ In irregular pieces, abies insize 5. coated with 
dust like pieces of Turkey y myrrh, but having a "adiing shining 
exterior. Each Mem piece appears to be for med by the cohesion of a 
number of small, rounded, somewhat transparent, externally shining, 
tears or drops. he Maó much resembles that of common myrrh, 
but wants the semicircular whitish markings. In odour and taste it 
closely agrees with true myrrh, Portions of a semi- transparent, brown, 
pepyruceous t bark are occasionally attached to pieces of it 
. What may be called Hadramaut myrrh appears to be distinct from 
ys: 
Arabian myrrh of the Pharmacographia. The trade name of this drug 
n Bombay is mee tiga ; ; it is mostly sold in € as true myrrh, for which 
it might easily be mistaken I am assured by the dealers that 
no true myrrh is ever receiyed from keshit ” And the same statement is. 
quoted from Malcolmson by Royle (Materia Medica, 2nd ed. p. 884) :— 
“ There is no myrrh produced in Arabia. 
Parker sanga Journal, 3rd. ser., x. p. 81), however, says: 
—“ The ‘meetiga’ of the Bombay market, PA Arabian myrrh by 
Dymock, differs bis from Hanbury’ s Arabian myrrh.” 
But Flückiger and Hanbury only recognise se the name Nos, i. 
and iii. 
iii. Flückiger and Hanbury (J. e. p. 146) describe what is apparently 
a third kind ‘of Arabian myrrh. «This is isthe myrrh * Hodaidia Jebeli, 
from north and north-western Yemen.” It gives no colour with 
bromine. 
The source of these kinds of myrrh is still involved in more or less 
uncertainty. Balsamodendron Myrrha was originally described from 
Ehrenberg’s Arabian specimens. It is doubtful if it affords any part of 
the Arabian myrrh of commere » This conclusion is confirmed by 
Deflers, Voyage au Yemen (p. 120 
* Le myrrhe,—el-Mour des Fer —est, aprés le café, un des princi- 
myrrhe vasa le B. Myrrha) soit commun dans vm la région 
montagn oyenne et inférieure du Yemen, il es disséminé 
dans les locit que j'ai visitées pour étre Pobjet Pani. exploitation 
rémunératri 
Diilstinodadion Opobalsamum, Kth. (B. e phreshergianath, Berg.) 
appears to be widely distributed throughout the evo littoral. It 
has been repeatedly. collected in the neighbourhood of Aden.  Deflers 
refers to this species, though with hesitation, the punt: from which 
myrrh is collected in Northern Yemen. He remarks that it had neither 
flower nor fruit and seemed to belong to a form intermediate between 
B. Myrrha and B. Opobalsamum. "E gives the following account of : 
the collection of myrrh from HM AU c. p. 121), 
“Ta myrrhe en alors e rété k la surface des fragments d'écorce 
)ris sur les gn e. des environs de Hodjeilah m'a paru 
T te et ‘comparable aux variétés les plus estimées. Déjà, sur les 
