BOOK XIII

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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF EXOTIC TREES, AND AN ACCOUNT OF UNGUENTS.

1. Unguents—at what period they were first introduced 159

2. The various kinds of unguents—twelve principal compositions 160

3. Diapasma, magma; the mode of testing unguents 166

4. The excesses to which luxury has run in unguents 167

5. When unguents were first used by the Romans 168

6. The palm-tree 169

7. The nature of the palm-tree 170

8. How the palm-tree is planted 172

9. The different varieties of palm-trees, and their characteristics 173

10. The trees of Syria: the pistacia, the cottana, the damascena, and the myxa 178

11. The cedar. Trees which have on them the fruit of three years at once _ib._

12. The terebinth 179

13. The sumach-tree _ib._

14. The trees of Egypt. The fig-tree of Alexandria 180

15. The fig-tree of Cyprus 181

16. The carob-tree _ib._

17. The Persian tree. In what trees the fruits germinate the one below the other 182

18. The cucus 183

19. The Egyptian thorn _ib._

20. Nine kinds of gum. The sarcocolla 184

21. The papyrus: the use of paper: when it was first invented 185

22. The mode of making paper 186

23. The nine different kinds of paper 187

24. The mode of testing the goodness of paper 189

25. The peculiar defects in paper 190

26. The paste used in the preparation of paper 191

27. The books of Numa _ib._

28. The trees of Æthiopia 193

29. The trees of Mount Atlas. The citrus, and the tables made of the wood thereof 194

30. The points that are desirable or otherwise in these tables 195

31. The citron-tree 198

32. The lotus _ib._

33. The trees of Cyrenaica. The paliurus 200

34. Nine varieties of the Punic apple. Balaustium _ib._

35. The trees of Asia and Greece; the epipactis, the erica, the Cnidian grain or thymelæa, pyrosachne, cnestron, or cneoron 201

36. The tragion: tragacanthe _ib._

37. The tragos or scorpio; the myrica or brya; the ostrys 202

38. The euonymos 203

39. The tree called eon _ib._

40. The andrachle 204

41. The coccygia; the apharce _ib._

42. The ferula _ib._

43. The thapsia 205

44. The capparis or cynosbaton, otherwise ophiostaphyle 206

45. The saripha 207

46. The royal thorn _ib._

47. The cytisus 208

48. The trees and shrubs of the Mediterranean. The phycos, prason, or zoster 209

49. The sea bryon 210

50. Plants of the Red Sea 211

51. Plants of the Indian Sea _ib._

52. The plants of the Troglodytic Sea; the hair of Isis: the Charito-blepharon 212

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