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PHARMACEUTICAL  NOTES. 
pflanzen,  (bd.  xi.  fol.  26)  and  especially  with  that  of  Noronha, 
(Verh.  Batav.  Genootsh.,  v.  2,  p.  1-9)  who  describes  it  as 
follows : 
"  Arbor  est  procera,  nubium  semula,  erectissima,  ad  altitudinem 
lucentorum  pedum  vel  magis  majestuose  assurgens. — Cortex  te- 
gens  partim  est  glaber,  partim  verrucosus,  externe  cinereus,  in- 
terne obscure  rubens,  cum  libra  dilute  rufescente,  odorato,  sed 
non  tanta  aromaticitate  prseditus  ac  in  radice.  Sapor  corticis 
est  asper,  amaricans,  resinosus,  balsamicus.  Lignum  est  sub- 
rubrum,  glabrum,  solidum,  compactum,  madidum,  succulentum, 
ponderosum,  oleo  aromatico  resinoso  imbutum,  quod  sponte  per 
rimulas  v arias  ad  super  ficiem  affluit,  vel  per  ineisiones  acinacibus 
Javanorum  factas,  qui  sedulo  Tiaue  resinam  eolligunt,  ut  odora- 
mentis  et  topicis  medieinalibus  inservat.  Oleum  effluens  consis- 
tentiam  mellis  et  colorem  primum  habet ;  postea  vero  fissuris 
corticis  congrumatum,  parum  albescit;  translucidumque  apparet 
cristalli  ad  instar;  guttse  prgesertim,  quae  scobem  non  tangunt." 
I  have  added  the  description  of  the  wood  and  balsam  which 
this  tree  produces,  and  which  account  was  confirmed  by  Rein- 
wardt  in  1828  (Nees  v.  Esenbeck,  Med.  Botanik,  i.  p.  335. 
Hayne,  L  c.)  because  it  is  not  mentioned  in  that  elaborate  paper 
of  Mr.  Hanbury  on  storax  {Pharm.  Journal,  xvi.  p.  423,  465.) 
This  authority  rejects  as  improbable  the  belief  that  one  species 
of  liquid  storax,  known  in  Oriental  commerce,  as  produced  in 
the  Red  Sea  or  Indian  Seas  generally,  but  assumes  that  it  comes 
to  India  by  way  of  Alexandria  and  Suez.  But  the  similarity  of 
the  name  under  which  storax  appears  in  the  records  of  the  Port  of 
Bombay,  i.  e.,  Rose  Malloes,  with  the  Malay  and  Javan  name  of 
L.  altingiana,  which  is  Rasamala,  certainly  suggests  some  con- 
nection. Petiver's  geography  was  no  doubt  faulty ;  yet  Rein- 
wardt  and  Noronha  state  from  personal  observation  that  there 
are  forests  with  many  thousands  of  these  balsam  trees  from  which 
liquid  storax  was  collected.  The  latter  author,  after  noticing  the 
words  of  Petiver,  as  quoted  by  GeofFroy,  continues  :  Hue  usque  de- 
scriptio  arboris  styracem  liquidum  exhibentis  omnes  latuit,  quam 
et  ego  arten  tissime  videre  cupiebam,  aliis  notitiis  evidentibus 
ductus  •  Hodie  dicere  audeo,oculis  meis  fidem  prsestans,  styracem 
