LIGN-ALOES, Eagle-wood, Aloes-wood.
Ahel, maw., . . ARAB. Calumbac, . . . ERG.
Ahelat, fem., . . „ Agila-wood, . . .
Ahelun, pt., . . _Mifflin, Ahilotti, . Iliin.
Chin-hiang, . . . Crum Agar, . . . . . HIND. A-kia-lu-Mang, . „ Agallochum, . • LAT.
Ya-hiang, Mih-hiang, Kayu gahru, . MALAY. Agalocha-wood, . ENG. Agaru, Agur, SANSIC., HD.
Lign-aloes is mentioned in Numbers xxiv. 6, Psalms xlv. 8, Proverbs vii. 17, Canticles iv. 14. It is obtained from the Aquilaria agallocha, Roxb., the Ophiospermum of Loureiro, a large evergreen tree. . The wood of the sound tree is light, pale, and very' slightly odorous, and is used to scent clothes. A very high artificial value is placed on the better qualities of its resinous product by the natives of the east, the best quality being worth about £14 to £30 the pikul of 133i lbs. The wood of the tree contains a quantity of an odoriferous oleo-resin, which, when heated, undergoes a sort of im perfect fusion, and exhales a fragrant and very agreeable odour. There are several kinds in Borneo, called generally by the natives Kayu gars, but produced apparently by diseases in the tree, the scented and resinous parts not being pro curable until the tree has been cut down and decayed. The Baru has long been an article of
considerable export from Borneo and the other islands to Arabia and China, where it is burned ns incense. The Aquilaria agallocha, Roxb., is something like the cedrela tree. It grows in Persia, Sylhet, Assam, the Laos country, Cochin China, Cambodia, in China, in Kiting- Chan (Hainan Island), in Shanking-fu and Lien Chan-fu in the Canton province. The wood, when boiled, produces several substances, to which the Chinese apply separate names. If part of the tree rot while growing or at any time after being felled, a dark resinous aromatic substance exudes in the heart-wood, which is the eagle-wood perfume under notice.—Sinimonds, p. 439 ; Low's Sarawak ; Smith's Chin. Mat. Med. See Aloes - wood ; Aquilaria ; Eagle wood.