بَشَامٌ

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بَشَامٌ [The tree of the balsam of Mekkeh; amyris opobalsamum; mentioned by Forskål in his Flora Aegypt. Arab. p. ex. as growing in the middle mountainous region of El-Yemen, and described by him in p. 79 of the same work; in both places as being called in Arabic ابو شام, which is a mistake for بشام;] a certain odoriferous kind of tree, of sweet taste, the leaves of which, pounded, and mixed with الحِنَّآء [or the leaves of the Lawsonia inermis], blacken the hair; it is a kind of tree having a stem and branches, and small leaves, but larger than the leaves of the [species of marjoram called] صَعْتَر, and having no fruit; [but only, as Forskål states, a blackish seed, which is abortive;] when its leaf or its branch is cut, it pours forth a white milk; and its twigs are used for cleaning the teeth: n. un. with ة. In a trad., mention is made of persons having no food but the leaves of the بشام.

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