Liquid STORAX. What is most commonly met with under this name, is a soft resinous substance, of a grey colour, a weak smell, similar to that of the foregoing solid storax: it is supposed to be compounded of solid storax, resin, wine, and oil, beaten up together into a proper consistence. The genuine liquid storax, according to Petiver's account, (Phil. Transact., no 313), is obtained from a tree growing in the island Cebos in the Red Sea. The preparers of this commodity yearly clear off the bark of the trees, and boil it in sea-water to the consistence of bird-lime: the resinous matter which floats upon the surface is taken off, liquified again in boiling water, and passed through a strainer. The purer part which passes through, and the more impure which remains on the strainer, and contains a considerable portion of the substance of the bark, are both sent to Moccia, from whence they are sometimes, though very rarely, brought to us. The first is of the consistence of honey, tenacious, of a reddish or ash-brown colour, an acrid unctuous taste, approaching in smell to the solid storax, but so strong as to be disagreeable; the other is full of woody matter, and much weaker in smell. Liquid storax among us is scarce ever made use of in medicine, and not often found in the shops.