This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
(Cambodia, in Asia.] A reddish-yellow gum used for coloring and in medicine.
It is got from several trees in Siam, Malabar, and Ceylon. It is brought in masses from Cambodia. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture. The gamboge tree of Western India yields, in addition to gamboge, a kind of oil called gamboge butter.
 
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