'File XX/5 Botanical information about Koweit.' [‎26r] (53/162)

The following are kinds of Bdellium :—
African Bdellium.
Opaque Bdellium.
Perfumed Bdellium or Bissabol.
Indian Bdellium.
African Bdellium is said to be derived from Commiphora africana in
part. It probably has also other unknown sources.
From what source opaque Bdellium comes is quite unknown. Formerly
it was confused with Hotai gum.
Perfumed Bdellium is from Commiphora Playfairii (see Bissabol).
Indian Bdellium is obtained from Commiphora Mukul, etc. (see.
Gugal).
African Bdellium and Opaque Bdellium—Both reach Bombay from
Berbera vid Aden.
Becham —Arabic for Balm, and said to be used as a name for Commi
phora Opobalsamum.
Belaip-polam= Vellaip-polam. '
Bissabol— A very fragrant myrrh-like product, derived, one has every
reason to believe, from a plant which has been considered to be a
variety of Commiphora erythrasa. It is also called Habaghadi,—
Fragrant Bdellium, and at times in Europe by a misnomer, Opopanax.
Until 1897, when the first consignments went to Europe, all the
export of Somaliland had passed across to Aden and Makalla and
thence vid Bombay to China.
The word Bissabol means Buffalo Myrrh, and contrasts the product
with Hira bol. It is given to buffaloes to promote secretion of milk.
Boe-Jahudan (Persian) =
Bol, Bola— In Sanskrit and in India—Myrrh, and found in combination
in such word as Bissabol.
Eolam—Cinghalese for Myrrh. The word became/Waw in the Madras
Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. .
Bol-i-armanie —See Armenian Bol.
Boswellia Ameero, Balf. f .—A balsam-yielding tree of Socotra. It is
not stated if it is commercially used.
Boswellia Bhau-dajiana, Birdwood—k tree of the Ahl mountains in
Somaliland, called Mohr-add and yielding a part of the frankincense of
commerce. Bentley and Trimen, although they do not precisely say
. that the plant is the same as B. Carterii, leave the impression that
they cannot positively separate it. However other botanists have done
so.
Boswellia Carterii, Birdwood —Is a tree of both sides of the Gulf of
Aden which grows to a moderate height. Either it is very variable or
else the name Carterii has been too widely applied and that some
of the divergent specimens so far collected do not properly belong to
the species; if the latter is the case, then the true B. Carterii is the
tree which grows on the Somaliland coast and was collected by Playfair
and Dr. Gray under the vernacular name of Mohr madoiv. The plant