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Siam Benzoi It is suggested that the memorandum on the Siam 
Benzoin may te fonnd era for p in the Kew Bu! letin 
, &e. 
(Signed) ” A. N. WOLLASTON. 
The Direct Assistant Sderot tary, 
Royal Baiia Ée Revenue and Statistics Department. 
No. 606.-—2 F.—7, dated Rangoon, the 30th May 1895. 
From—The Revenue Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Burma. 
To—The Secretary to the Government of India, Revenue and 
Agricultural Department. 
With reference to the correspondence concerning the steps taken 
with the view of identifying the plant or tree which produces the 
resin known as “Siam Benzoin," I am directed 246 submit, for the 
information he Government of a memo 
of India, a copy ran 
regarding the tree that produces this BON and on the Gum Benjamin 
industry in Siam, prepared in Bangkok under the orders of the Siamese 
Minister of the Interior, and forwarded to the Chief Commissioner by 
Mr. J. G. Scott in April 1894. 
Mr. Scott stated that the area in which the Gum Benjamin trees 
were found was said to be all on the left bank of the Sakon, and, 
therefore, in what is e Frene nt terri ry. 
Mr. Scott further remarked “the great Sian Benzoin tract is Hna 
Pan Htang, Ha ee Hók, the — country east and north-east 
of Luang Prabang." . 
Memorandum regarding the Tree that produces Resin, and on the Gum 
Benjamin Industry in Siam. 
mbles 
making dug- eut lae s). The Gum Benjamin tree is propagated from 
the original fruit. This, when fallen and Ea upon the oe eme takes 
root and is after the fashion of the “ phayom” and “ gang” trees. 
As regards the trunk of the Gum Bénjkinii tree, there is no one rho 
uses it. Gum Benjamin trees are generally found on elevated ground, 
and do not like the plains. country. They grow in isolated patches like 
the forests of * teng-rang ” and teak. A forest patch of Gum Benjamin 
usually contains from 50 to 60 trees and upwards, and the tree is found 
generally in large numbers along the high hills in the extensive forest 
region of Slua Phan, Tangslok, and the borders of Miiang Theng, in the 
province of Luang Prabang. It is rarely met with in other countries 
okore kanioni provinces, have w ciked ò out and traded.in the Gum 
jamin from an early period for successive — and these are 
scattered amongst the neighbouring people as well as being frequently 
