Note 197 — Chapter XXII · —Submission of the Oreitai—Description of the Gadrôsian desert
Reading edition
A description of this unguent is given by Pliny (N. H. xii. c. 26). He there mentions that a special kind of it was produced in the Gangetic regions. In the 33d chapter of the same book will be found a description of the myrrh-tree and its produce.