204: DICTIONAEY OF POPULAR NAMES GUM 



tries. It is largely imported into this country, the quantity in 

 1880 being 73,926 cwts., valued at £200,375, and used for 

 various purposes in the arts and manufactures, being extensively 

 employed for stiffening and giving lustre to crape, silk, and 

 other woven fabrics. 



Gum, British. (See Starch.) 



Gum Cistus. (See Ladanum.) 



Gum Dragon, a name given in commerce to Gum Traga- 

 canth (which see). 



Gum Elemi. {See Jamaica Birch.) 



Gum Euphorbium. {See Euphorbia.) 



Gum Guaiacum. {See Lignum Vitae.) 



Gum Kino (Pterocar^^cs marsupium), a tree of the Bean 

 family (Leguminosse), native of India, which, with P. erinaceus 

 of Western Africa, yields a gum. It is obtained by making 

 incisions in the bark, and is imported for tanning and dyeing. 

 A Gum Kino is also yielded by P. DallergioideSj a large tree, 

 native of Burmah and the Andaman Islands, where it grows 

 to the diameter of 4 feet. Its wood is hard and similar to 

 mahogany. Butea frondosa and B. superha, East Indian legu- 

 miaous trees, yield quantities of a reddish-coloured gum-resin, 

 known as Bengal Kino. {See Pulas.) 



Gum Senegal. {See Gum Arabic.) 



Gum Tragacanth {Astragalus gummifer), a harsh, spiny, 

 low, wing-leaved leguminous shrub, native of desert and moun- 

 tainous regions of Western Asia. A gum issues from the stem 

 and branches spontaneously, and forms an article of commerce. 

 It is used in the arts as a substitute for glue. Tragacanth is 

 also produced in some of the Greek islands and other parts by 

 several allied species of Astragalus. 



Gum Trees. {See Eucalyptus.) 



Gunjah. {See Hemp.) 



Gunny-bags. {See Jute.) 



Gutta-percha {Dichopsis gutta), a tree of the Star Apple 

 family (Sapotacese), attaining a height of from 60 to 70 feet. 

 It has smooth, ovate, entire leaves, of a rusty-brown colour on 



