It grows in the Konkan districts,
producing a fragrant resin called Dikamali in India, and by the Arabs
Kankham.
IV. Balsamodendron Mukul, growing in Sind, Kattiawar and the Deesa
District, and producing the Indian Bdellium, Mukl of the Arabs and
Persians, used as an incense and as a cordial medicine. It is believed to
be the [Greek: Bdella] mentioned in the Periplus as exported from the
Indus, and also as brought down with Costus through Ozene (Ujjain) to
Barygaza (Baroch - see Mueller's Geog. Graec. Minor. I. 287, 293). It is
mentioned also (Mukl) by Albiruni as a special product of Kachh, and is
probably the incense of that region alluded to by Hiuen Tsang. (See last
chapter, note 3.) It is of a yellow, red, or brownish colour. (Eng. Cyc.
art. Bdellium; Dowson's Elliot, I. 66; Reinaud in J. As. ser. IV.
tom. iv. p. 263).
V. Canarium strictum (Roxb.), of the Western Ghats, affording the Black
Dammar of Malabar, which when fresh is aromatic and yellow in colour. It
abounds in the country adjoining Tana. The natives use it as incense, and
call the tree Dhup (incense) and Gugul (Bdellum).
Besides these resinous substances, the Costus of the Ancients may be
mentioned (Sansk. Kushth), being still exported from Western India, as
well as from Calcutta, to China, under the name of Putchok, to be burnt
as incense in Chinese temples.
