BALATA

n. Ba‘l-ai/ta’. 1. A Guiana name for the Mimuso, b. (Sapota Miilleri), [B,121.] 2 The dried uly juice (Ge, chicle, leche de pop a) of that tree, also of the Achras b., the Achras dis: sect a, aa several other sapotaceous trees indigenous to Guiana. When freshly obtained. it occurs in porous, spongy ma es, white, reddish-white, or black. In commerce it usually occurs in the form of tough, very flexible, elastic pieces of a grayish-red or reddish brown color, having an odor like that of gutta perch a, which it resembles in physical properties and for which it is often employed as a substitute, It is soluble in benzene, in warm oil of turpentine, and in carbon disulphide, and melts at 149° C. [B. al See also Cnicie.—B. blane (Fr.). See White b—B, indien (Fr.). The Labatia macrocarpa. {B, 121.]—B. rouge (Fr.). A Guiana species of Anona, [B.121.]—Galimata b., Galimeta b. See White b.—Lucuma b. A variety furnished by the Achras (seu Sapota, seu Lucuma) mammosa. [B.|—Mimusops b. See Bots de balata’ —Vulcanized b, Ger., vulcanisirte B. A name given to b. treated with sulphur like vulcanized India rubber, used for the same purposes as the latter. Couratari. [B, 121.] BALÂTAILA (Sanscr.), n, An oil obtained by boiling 4 parts of the root of Sida cord i folia with 82 of water until the whole is reduced to 8 parts, then adding 8 parts of milk, 4 parts of prepared sesamum oil, and 1 part of the root of Sida cord i folia. Used externally for hemiplegia, stiffne of the neck, facial paralysis, and tinnitus aurium a ociated with headache. [B, 181.]