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MM. Engler, Schumann, Garcke, &e., ont adopté dans leur e wrer 
l'explication "donnée par moi, La myrrhe des Somal. n'est en 
suffisamment constaté, personne n'a vu la recueillir, sauf Hildebrandt 
qui a. manqué d'identifier cae botaniquement. Chez les Somal 
plusieurs espèces de Commiphora so 
L'ideatité de Commiphor a aby ifo avec la myrrhe du commerce 
d’Arabie a été constaté par M. A. Deflers en ares dans le pays 
Fadhli- (est Y Aden) ou il ^ vu collectionner la myrrhe et d'oü ila a 
rapporté des échantillons — tert D’apre s Deer aussi la region 
à l'ouest d'Aden, au centre de l'angle bud edendi qui forme la peninsule 
en contient eniadii ‘Cette espéce de myrrhe est aussi 
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ilométres à nord-ouest de Sana). Ce dernier S la myrrhe du 
commerce exporté par Hadeidah comme la meillet 
La — n'est pas recueillie en Abyssinie du; moins pas pour le 
| ecommerce. 
En Arabie on xd ls Lodi aujourd'hui ** Khaddash” pour 
le eonun * murr orr" serait plutot l'expression arabe 
littéra 
La pci rhe des anciens était un medicament solide; une seule variété, 
qu'on appelait ** stakte” pouvait servir comme ingrédient aromatique à 
la composition des mixtures odorantes. 
” 
The deliberate judgment of so accomplished a botanist. as Dr. 
ipt mens is entitled to great weight. It will e observed that he 
expresses no opinion as to the origin of Somali myrrh, ee he sets 
aside the conclusions which have hitherto been drawn by Flückiger, 
Hanbury, Trimen and others from Hildebrandt’s eir: d The 
conclusions at which Schweinfurth arrives are appare : (1) that 
Fahdli and. Yemen Myrrh are identical; Md that eram se > produced 
by Balsamodendron abyssinicum with which Deflers appea i 
recently identified the plant which he TT doubtfully kept 
to B. Opobalsamum. 
I must confess that both conclusions seem me to present some 
difficulty. In the first place both Somali and Fadhli myrrh give the 
same colour reaction with bromine, while Yemen myrrh gives no 
Yet Hanbury (Pharm. Journ. xii., p. 227) thought Fadhli myrrh “ thé 
produce of some other tree than that producing common myrrh,” t:e., that 
the plants producing stre and Fahdli myrrh were different, as is 
probably the case. On other hand, the Kew Herbarium contains 
in from the reri of Aden eollected by Captain Hunter 
and labelled by him “ true myrrh,” which agrees with B. Myrrha.’ In 
the Kew Report for 1878 Pia 40) the following account is given of a 
Specimen sent to gasi by Mr. Wykeham Perry * as the true myrrh tree 
of Arabia." ''* It odfibm the hills in the Fadhli district, some 60 
miles from Aden: Te nt believed to be the same species as the Somali 
plant. «This may be so, but it is wanting in the excessive ge ine of 
B. Myr os — a small flowering branch previously received from Mr. 
Wykeham appeared to agree with B. Opobalsamum, Kth., found in 
Abyssinia Schweinfurt, = which is believed to i identieal with 
B. ehrenbergianum, Berg." men (Bentley and Trimen, Medicinal. 
Plants, sub tab. 60) on the teri hand regards the specimen as belonging 
to “apparently the tice pad as B. Myrrha. 1t seems probable sm 
to above, and I am now disposed to identify it with cae 
simplicifolia, Schw. 
