ELEMI, an oleo-resin (Manilla elemi) obtained in the Philip pine Islands, probably from Canarium commune (nat. ord. Bur seraceae), which when fresh and of good quality is a pale yellow granular substance of honey-like consistency, but which grad ually hardens with age. It is soluble in alcohol and ether, and has a spicy taste with a smell like fennel. In the r 7th and i 8th centuries the term usually denoted an oleo-resin (American or Brazilian elemi) obtained from trees of the genus Icica in Brazil, and still earlier it meant oriental or African elemi, derived from Boswellia Frereana, which flourishes in the neighbourhood of Cape Gardafui. The word, like the older term animi, appears to have been derived from enaemon (Gr. Evat sov), the name of a styptic medicine said by Pliny to contain tears exuded by the olive tree of Arabia.