GUMS, RESINS, AND OTHER VEGETABLE EXUDATIONS. 185 



Anqophora Woodsiana, Bail. 



See J. Bancroft, quoted by Maiden (60). 

 Spermolepis gummifera, Brongn. and Gris. 



Also belonging to the Myrtacese, is from New Caledonia and 

 yields a kino. See Rep. de Pharm. [v.] (3) 241 (Journ. Soc. Chem. 

 Ind. xii. 611). 

 Syncarpia Hillii, Bail. 



Lauterer (33) has examined this oleo-resin and his paper should 

 be referred to. Queensland. 



Syncarpia laurifolia, Ten., "Turpentine-tree." 



Is a better known species than the preceding, and its oleo-resin 

 has often been collected. It has been partly examined by Prof. 

 E. H. Rennie of Adelaide, who obtained an acid from it, by boil- 

 ing with potash, which is not cinnamic acid, but other duties have 

 prevented the completion of the research. It is stated that the 

 native bees use the oleo-resin for the purpose of varnishing the 

 interior of cavities in trees before starting to build their nests. 

 It is a substance of special interest for its own sake, apart from 

 the fact that it is one of the few exudations from our Australian 

 Myrtacese that are not kinos. 



New South Wales and Queensland. 



ARALIACEiE. 



Astrotriche Jloccosa, DC. 



For a note on a gum-resin from this shrub see Maiden (46). 



Panax elegans, C. Moore and F.v.M. 



Panax sambucifulius, Sieb. 



For an account of these soluble gums see Maiden (46). This 

 paper contains notes on other exudations belonging to the 

 Araliacese. A resinous substance from the bark of Aralia spinosa, 

 is recorded in Pharm. Journ. [3] xiii. 305. 



LORANTHACE^E. 



Nutysia floribunda, R. Br., "Cabbage Tree," "Mote-yar" of the 

 blacks (Stokes), "A Mistletoe." 



