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ON  STORAX.  261 
Liquid  Storax  annually  extracted  amounts  to  about  20,000  oJces 
(500  cwt.)  from  the  districts  of  Giova  and  Ulla ;  and  13,000  oJces 
(325  cwt.)  from  those  of  Marmorizza  and  Isgengak. 
It  is  exported  in  casks  to  Constantinople,  Smyrna,  Syra  and 
Alexandria.  Some  is  also  packed  with  a  certain  proportion  of 
water  in  goat-skins  and  sent,  either  by  boats  or  overland,  to 
Smyrna,  where  it  is  transferred  to  casks  and  shipped  mostly  to 
Trieste. 
It  appears  from  Mr.  Maltass,  that  formerly  the  whole,  both 
of  the  resin  and  the  residual  bark,  was  bought  by  the  merchants 
of  the  island  of  Rhodes,  but  at  what  period  and  under  what  cir- 
cumstances this  occurred,  I  have  not  been  able  to  learn. 
[Note. — "We  omit  that  portion  of  this  paper,  which  has  reference  to 
the  derivation  of  oriental  names  used  in  connection  with  the  subject,  for 
want  of  space. — Editor  Am.  Jour.  Pharm.] 
The  conclusions  to  which  this  long  investigation  leads,  may  be 
thus  briefly  summed  up. 
1.  That  the  original  and  classical  Storax  was  produced  by 
Styrax  officinale  Linn. 
2.  That  always  scarce  and  valuable,  it  has  in  modern  times 
wholly  disappeared  from  commerce. 
3.  That  the  account  of  the  collection  of  Liquid  Storax  given 
by  Petiver  and  Landerer  are  in  many  important  particulars 
grossly  erroneous. 
4.  That  Liquid  Storax  is  the  produce  of  Liquidambar  orien- 
tale  Miller,  and  that  it  is  collected  in  the  south-west  of  Asia  Minor. 
5.  That  the  bark  of  Liquidambar  orientale  Miller,  after  Liquid 
Storax  has  been  expressed  from  it,  constitutes  the  Cortex 
Thymiamatis  of  Europe. 
6.  That  there  is  no  evidence  of  the  ndo-m^ov  of  Dioscorides 
being  the  bark  of  Liquidambar  orientale. — London  JPharm. 
Jour.,  Feb.  and  March,  1857. 
[Note. — The  satisfactory  determination  of  Liquidambar  orientale  as  the 
source  of  commercial  Liquid  Storax  leads  us  to  say  a  few  words  in  reference 
to  the  Liquidambar  styraciflua  of  this  country.  The  tree  grows  abundantly 
in  New  Jersey  near  this  city  and  attains  a  height  of  fifty  feet.  In  this  lati- 
tude the  tree  does  not  give  a  resinous  exudation,  but  in  Kentucky  and 
further  South  a  soft  resin  exudes  by  wounding  the  bark  which  possesses  a 
benzoic  odor  and  taste,  and  is  used  in  the  Western  States  for  chewing, 
