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not clearly understood by Bentley and Trimen who (Medicinal Plants, 
sub tab. 60), ia to Hotat, observe * for which Opaque Bdellium is 
cate nam 
Par * (Pharmaceutical Journal, 3rd ser. xi., p. 41), further points 
out ra tincture of ue Bdellium gives an intense geenis: -black 
colour with ferric HUM A pO tincture of gum hotai dces 
Of the source of Opaque Bdellium nothing appears to me kno 
eu (l.c. p. 82) attributes it to Balsamodendron Playfairii, supposed 
o be the source of Gum Hotai, but there a to be 
for this except Bentley and Trimen’s mistaken [4 pot nel of Eum two 
drugs. 
Bissa Bór. 
Hanbury states (Pharmaceutical Journal, xii., p. 227) that this is 
e E regarded as a species of myrr h of ses quality. It was 
erly known as East Indian Tyre rh, but now seldom . so 
distingaishe el. It is quite distinet from Tiia ua African 
dellium.” 
Flückiger and Hanbury (Pharmacographia, 2nd ed., p. 146.) says :— 
* Bissa Ból differs from myrrh in its stronger almost acrid taste, and in 
odour which when once familiar is Sune, recognisable ; fine, specimen 
of the former have the outward character of myrrh, and perhaps iko 
often passed off for it." But they state that, unlike myrrh, it gives no 
violet colour with bromin 
They identify it with Habaghadi or Hebbakhade of the Somalis. 
It is exported from the whole Somali coast. (Flick. and Hanb. 
Pharmacographia, 2nd ed., p. 145.) According to Captain Hunter 
(quoted by the same authors, l.c., pp. 140, 141) it is not fond * jn the 
coast range of the Somali country, but only at a considerable distance 
from the sea-sh 
He gives the following. description of it: “occurs in irregular-shaped 
pieces more or less flat, some of them having earth and fragments of 
white streaks run through the semi-transparent r reddis mass. 
odour is more powerful and more perfume | than that of bdellium ; the 
taste perfumed, aromatie, and feebly bitter. 
ym Pharmaceutical Journal, 3rd. ser. vi. p. 661) further says 
that the adherent tark is thick, “ not the birch-like atk that adheres to 
common bdellium . ‘he odour on fresh fracture is powerful 
and pount not unlike a lemon lollipop.” 
r (Pharmaceutical Journal, 3rd ser. x., p. 82) identifies 
Dymock’s perfumed Bdellium with Bissa bél proper. He states that 
«bales of Bissa ból are shipped fro om Berbera to Bombay ; probably a 
ion 
ibes it as resembling “ myrrh much more closely than either of 
the bdelliums previously described. In external appearance it is CUM 
vadis unlike myrrh, difücult to deseribe glisse because nothing 
resembles it), but ony x recognised after one introduction to the 
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olfactory nerve. «< . - * he taste is aromatic and slightly 
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