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VEGETABLE DRUGS. 
Cochinil (see Kermes) 
Colombo* 
Cursutaf 
Dragon’s blood (a gum resin) 
Elatgrium 
Euphorbium (a gum resin) 
Frankincence; or olibanum (a 
resin) 
Galbanum (a gum resin) 
Gum ammoniac! (a gum resin) 
Gum anime (a resin) 
Gum arabic (a gum) 
Gum baubaul 
Gum copal (a resin) 
Gum elemi§ (a resin) 
Gum guajacum (a, resin) 
Gum ladanum (a resin) 
Gum lacj| (a resin) 
Cactus cochinillifet 
Gentiana purpurea 
Draceena draco 
Pterocarpus draco 
Momordica elateriam 
Euphorbia antiquorum 
Juniper us fycia * 
Bub on galbanum 
Ferula 
Ilym&rma courharil 
Mimosa nilotica 
-Mkus cqpallinum 
Amyris elimifera 
Guajacum officinale 
Cistus ladaniferus 
lihamnus ziziphus 
and is supposed originally to be of vegetable production.— Amber and amlergris# 
though ranked amongst the fossil bitumen, are also supposed to proceed from vege¬ 
tables.—Tar is also not only obtained from coaly but issues from copious springs/, 
both in England and Germany.— Barilla or saphora is also found near Bombay^ 
in a bed of ferrugineous clay, and is^said to be well adapted for hard soap, medical 
uses, and plate glass. 
A tincture from the root of cofombo is much recommended as an agreeable 
stomachic bitter# 
•f CursUta. is a word Which found its way into the Edinburgh Bfepensatory, from 
a Norway ship once bringing a quantity of it to Edinburgh, where the root was 
used with good success as a bitter ; and its etimology is supposed to be from a 
corruption of skar-sote (mountain soot), the Norway name for gentiana purpurea .. 
is a native of Savoy. 
Smith’s Tour on the Continent, v. hi, p. 157, printed 1793 . 
X The gum-ammoniac beetle, called in Morrocco dibbenfashook, perforates the 
plant, and makes incisions, whence the gum oozes out 5 it seems to be nearly the 
same insect which Mr. Bruce calls zirrtb , or dog fly. 
§ Burs era gummifera affords a resin no way different from the gum elemi of the 
shops. 
H Mr. Robert Saunders, Surgeon at Boglepoor in Bengal, in his account of the 
vegetable and mineral productions of Boutan and Tibet, hath "shewn that gumlae 
is the production or nidus of an insect, called coccos 9 or kcrrries lacca 9 on a species 
of rhamnusy which is imported into this country from the East Indies under three 
forms, which are called sticky seedy and shell lac % the first of these exhibits the 
substance in its natural state. 
