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XXVII.—The Dragon's Blood Tree of Socotra (Dracæna Cinnabari, Balf. fil.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Bayley Balfour
Affiliation:
Regius Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow

Extract

The following remarks on the dragon's blood tree of Socotra are intended to serve as introduction to Dr Dobbie's and Mr Henderson's paper on the red resin obtained from the tree, and to furnish a technical description of the plant which has not hitherto appeared. In my account of the Botany of Socotra, which will shortly be published by the Society, further remarks upon this interesting tree will be found, along with a figure.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1883

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