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Updated: April 30, 2025
Here likewise grows the laser tree, which produces the precious gum called Laserpitium or Belzoe , as we were told by the inhabitants and merchants, but not having myself seen it I am unable to give any distinct account of this substance.
There is a sweet-scented wood in the east known by the name of lignum aloes, and possibly the sweet gum called belzoe may have been extracted from it, or from that which produces the oil of rhodium. This country has plenty of wood fit for the construction of ships.
He took also about the size of a walnut of the common laserpitium or belzoe, and half a pound of that which comes from the city of Sarnau, and putting both into different chaffing-dishes with burning coals in a close chamber, the small quantity of belzoe far exceeded, in sweetness of flavour, the other which weighed half a pound, and would even have done so had it been two pounds weight . In this region also is found the substance called lacca from which a bright red colour is procured.
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