[1468] Gmelin, Chemistry, xvi. (1864). 28.
[1469] Fig. in Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, part 18 (1877).
[1470] As we learn from Dr. Rice.—Prof. Dymock (1876) gives Timbooree as the Bombay name.
[1471] Tom. iii. tab. 41.
[1472] Bengal Dispensatory, Calcutta, 1842. 428.
[1473] Etude sur le Plaqueminier (Diospyros), thèse, Paris, 1873. 28-30.
[1474] Benzoin in Malay and Javanese is termed Kamâñan, Kamiñan, and Kamayan, abbreviated to mâñan and miñan (Crawfurd); it is called in Siamese kom-yan or kan-yan; in Chinese ngán-si-hiáng.
The name Benzoin is also applied to the beautiful prisms C₁₄H₁₂O₂ obtained by treating Bitter Almond Oil with an alcoholic solution of potash.
[1475] Crawfurd suggests that the Malabathrum of the ancients is possibly benzoin.—Dict. of Indian Islands, 1856. 50.
[1476] Voyages d’Ibn Batoutah, traduit par Defrémery et Sanguinetti, Paris, 1853-59. iv. 228. 240.