[363] In the Catalogue des Produits des Colonies françaises, Exposition Universelle de 1878, p. 175, it is stated that the balsam of D. alatus in French Cochin China is preferred, being a “huile b’anche.”
[364] Mat. Med. of Hindoostan, Madras, 1813. 186.
[365] Bengal Dispensatory, 1842. 22.
[366] 0·944 according to Werner; 0·931 O’Shaughnessy; 0·928 De Vry (1857).
[367] This magnificent colouring matter is not dissolved by ether.
[368] Pharm. Journ. xvi. (1857) 374.
[369] The sample of gurjun balsam examined by Werner as well as the resin it contained were entirely soluble in boiling potash lye.
[370] Gmelin, Chemistry, xvii. 545.
[371] Flückiger, Pharm. Journ. (1878) 725, with fig.
[372] Catalogue of the French Colonies, Paris Exhibition, 1878, 101, quoted above.