... 4...16]. 6 ACHILI.BA. Acadia ce, Gum Arabic, ad lib. Syn: acacise gummi; gomme arabique, Fr.: arabisches gummi, O. Hab: Egypt; Abyssinia; Senegambia; Arabia; India. Part used: the gum of the acacia ...

... GUM ARABIC. The greater part of pure gum arabic is furnished by the acacia vera of Willdenow, a tree which grows in the sandy deserts of Arabia Petraea, Africa, and Egypt. It is obtained by ...

... which flows naturally from the acacia in Egypt, Arabia, and elsewhere. This forms a clear transparent mucilage with .water. 3. Gum Seneca, or Senegal. It does not greatly differ from gum arabic: the pieces are larger and clearer ; and it ...

... GUM ARABIC. The greater part of pure gum arabic is furnished by the acacia vera of Wild enow, a tree which grows in the sandy deserts of Arabia Petrsea, Africa, and Egypt. It is obtained by ...

... In the 2d ple mucils matter, as gum Arabic seneca etc. That gum Arab. is capl of giving nourishmt is known frm people having liv’d on it several months in the deserts of Arabia, beg destitute of other food Next fruits, wh ...

... shiny leaves not unlike those of the Camellia Japonica. It begins to bear Avhen three years old, and will bear fruit for twenty or more years. The berries are red Avhen ripe. Each contains two (rarely three) seeds. Mocha coffee (from Arabia) is the best* The most delicious beverage Fig. ...

... of “ Tons les mo?«.”] CANNABIS SATIVA (h'nnab. Arabic). Cannabis Indica (?). Common Hemp, an Urticaceons plant, the leaves of which fur- nish an-intoxicating drug, under the names of bang or ganga in India, kinnab or hashish in Arabia, malach in Turkey, and dacha among the Hottentots. ...

... Avhich grows in the sandy deserts of Africa, Arabia Petrcea, anil Egypt. There are tAvo kinds of gum found in the shops, and sold promiscuously : distin- MATERIA MEDICA. 273 guished by the names of Gum Arabic, and East India Gum. Gum arabic consists of ...

... this work. BDELLIUM. A gum-resin brought from Arabia, or the neighbouring countries of the East, and said to be the product of the Heudelotia Africana. (Journ. de Pharm. xix. 250 and 312.) It sometimes comes mixed with gum Arabic and gum Senegal. It is either in small ...

... Senegal, and other parts of Africa, also in Arabia and Hindostan. Acacia Catechu. A small tree, na- tive of the East Indies, from the wood of which gum catechu (formerly called Terra japonica) is extracted. Acacia Decurrens, Acacia Floribunda. Species of ...