Myrrh
in botany, Balsamodendron is during a great portion of the year healthy and pleasant. The annual value of the exports, chiefly betel nut and leaves, coffee, ragi, gram, cotton, piecegoods, cardamoms, rice, silk, and sugar, is above $6,000,000. The imports, consisting mainly of piece-goods, cloth, wheat, silver, gold, cotton, rice, silk, betel leaves, and pepper, are over $7,500,000. The ruinous misgovernment of the native prince led the British to assume the administration in 1831; but in 1881 Mysore was restored to the native dynasty. The famine years (1876-1878) told with great severity on that state. Capital, Mysore, situated amid picturesque scenery on a declivity formed by two parallel ranges running N. and S. 245 miles W. S. W. of Madras, is a prosperous, well-built town with broad, regular streets, and substantial houses and public buildings.
On the S. side stands the fort, which incloses the rajah's palace; its chief object of interest is a magnificent chair or throne of fig-wood, overlaid with ivory myrrha; also the genus Myrrhis. In and gold. Pop. about 75,000. chemistry, a gum resin which exudes from Balsamodendron myrrha, a shrub growing in Arabia and Abyssinia.
MYRTACEÆ, myrtle-blooms; an order of epigynous exogens, alliance Myrtales.
It consists of trees or shrubs, with opposite or alternate entire leaves, usually with transparent dots and a vein running parallel to the margin.