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fruit (an Amomum ?) found in the markets of Shoa, but 
probably the produce of a country farther to the west. 
Scammony. — Particulars of the manufacture — or, to 
speak more correctly — the adulteration of scammony, car- 
ried on at Smyrna. What is the purgative resin or gum- 
resin (if any) which is added, with the view of increasing 
the bulk and the medicinal activity of the mixture ? 
Camphor Oils. — There are two sorts : one brought from 
the East, does not deposite crystals by keeping ; the other 
does. Is the former the produce of Dryobalanops Cam- 
phora? If so, what is the source of the latter ? Is it ob- 
tained from the foliage of Laumts Camphora {Camphora 
Officinarum, Nees,) or is it an artificially manufactured 
article ? The camphor deposited is said to be similar to 
common camphor. 
Kino. — All particulars of details about the manufacture 
of East Indian kino {Fterocarpus marsupium) are de- 
sirable. 
. Turmeric. — The several commercial sorts of turmeric 
differ so much in external character as to throw doubt on 
the identity of their origin. Are they not the produce of 
several species of Curcuma? Well dried specimens ac- 
companying the root, should be transmitted from different 
parts of India. 
The Grass-Oils. — The grasses used in India for affording 
the oils imported as grass-oils, lemon-grass-oil, and essence 
of verbena, or verbena-oil, to be ascertained, and samples 
sent home, with details of the manufacture, 
i Storax of commerce is supposed to be obtained from the 
Liquidambar orientale of Cyprus, and comes by the Red 
Sea from the Persian Gulf : but the subject requires inves- 
tigation, for others believe the plant grows in Cobross, an 
island of the upper end of the Red Sea. Dr. Pereira has 
ascertained that the liquid storax comes to us by way of 
Trieste ; the storax of the Indian Archipelago is yielded 
by the Liquidambar altingia of Blume. 
