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Boswellia Thurifera

This Coromandel tree furnishes the resin known as olibanum, which is supposed to have been the frankincense of the ancients. It is sometimes used in medicine as an astringent and stimulant, and is emp...

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This Coromandel tree furnishes the resin

known as olibanum, which is supposed to have been the frankincense

of the ancients. It is sometimes used in medicine as an astringent

and stimulant, and is employed, because of its grateful perfume,

as an incense in churches.



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