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ON THE GUM KINO. 
and may be of vital service in some instances. The infor- 
mation contained in this little volume will enable him to 
act with more certainty and efficiency than he will be able 
to do from the information on this subject usually acquired 
through pharmaceutical works. 
ART. XXX.— ON THE GUM KINO OF THE TENASSERIM 
PROVINCES. 
By the Rev. F. Mason. 
In a valuable article by Dr. Royle on Gum Kino, re- 
printed in the Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural 
Society of India, which ostensibly enumerates all the 
various regions from which it has been imported into 
England, there is no mention of this article being imported 
from this coast. Yet long before Dr. Royle compiled that 
communication, more than one consignment had been made 
by parties in Maul main to houses in London of gum kino 
to the amount of a thousand pounds. 
It was brought to Maulmain by an English merchant 
from the Shan States, and stated by him, as our commisioner 
at the time informed the writer, to be the production of the 
Pa-douk, the same tree as the one in Maulmain thus de- 
nominated by the Burmans. Several years before I had 
directed attention to this tree as producing an astringent 
gum resembling gum kino, but the medical officer to whom 
I submitted specimens of the gum said it was " a kind of 
dragon's blood but after it was known that the gum of 
the Pa-douk had been sold in London for the veritable 
gum kino, another medical gentleman tried in his practice 
the exudation of the tree in his compound in the place of 
the gum kino in his stores, and reported the effects the 
same, that their medical virtues were alike. 
