Note 3057 — BOOK XXIII. THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE CULTIVATED TREES.
John Bostock translation
Fée is of opinion that this is not the “myrobalanum” of B. xii. c. 46, the behen or ben nut, but the phœnicobalanus of c. 47 in that Book; and, indeed, there can be little doubt that Pliny has committed an error here in substituting one for the other.