OLIBANUM, Incense.
Kandur, Luban, . ARAB. Weirancb, . . . GER Ganda baroza, . BENG. Aigayas, Alfiarom • Ju-hiang, T'au-ju, OinN. Sall-gond, . . . HIND Hiun-luh-hiang, . „ Kundur zachir, • „ Avul kundur, . . DUX. Labuniya, . . Synuci, Encens, FR PRIM& sambrani, TAMIL This was the frankincense used by the ancients in their religious ceremonies. Moses speaks of it in Exodus xxx. 34. There are now three kinds known in commerce,—the African, Arabian, and the E. I n dian,—all of which seem to be obtained from species of 13oswellia. B. thurifem grows in N. and Central India, and the existence of this kind, as Well as of the Arabian, was known to Dioscorides. In commerce, the Arabian is known as male or lieu olibanuni, to distinguish it from the E. Indian sr stalactitic olibanum. Mr. Vaughan mentions Unit, from Baudar-Mait, the Luban maiti is imported into the Aden market for sale ; from Bandar-Angure, the Luban nankar, or angure ; and from the ports of Has Roorree, nor Bandar, Alholu, Murya, and Bandar Kliasooin in the ;:ountry of the Wursangali and Mijerthen Somali, ibout Cape Guardafui. Tho drug is collected in March, April, and May, and chiefly finds its way :o Bombay through the entrepots of Macula and ehr.
African olibanum is also imported into Vienna Ind Marseilles from Suez, and is obtained from Arabia and tho E. coast of Africa. It is mentioned ay Dr. Pereira as occurring in smaller tears than
he Indian variety, yellowish or reddish, and utermixed with crystals of carbonate of lime. due kind of African olibanum is no doubt pro luced on the hills of the Somali coast westward Cape Guardafui, and carried to the Arabian ;oast chiefly by native boats from Macula.
The Arabian olibanum tree grows on the side If the mountains in the Nejd or highlands, and war the Sahila or sea-coast, also between lat. 30' N. and long. 55° 47' E., where the desert ends and the wooded mountain region begins, and is 3xported from all the ports in the coast line S.W. o the town of Damkote, in the Alkammar bay, n long. 52° 47' E. Good olibanum, as met with n Bombay, is in semitransparent tears, of a light rellow colour, sometimes inclining to white ; iirittle and adhesive when warm ; when burnt the )(lour is very agreeable ; its taste is bitterish, and ioinewhat pungent and aromatic. Olibanum was fiscal iu nearly all the religious ceremonies of antiquity, and now is chiefly employed in funii ;;ations, and in the ceremonies of the Greek and Catholic Churches. It is imported into Bombay from the Persian Gulf. The superior or garbled lualities are re-exported to England and France, and the inferior or refuse kinds to China.