GALBANUM

gum resin, yellowish brown, containing umbellifer one, derived from exotic plants (feruloe); has bitter taste; used in medicine externally as irritant, internally as digestive; also to make varnish, 1918), Spanish novelist, 6. at Las Palmas, Canary Islands. He began _ his career as a novelist with stories based on history. A work in 30 volumes Episodios Nacionales deals with the first three decades of the 19th century (1879 and on). His best known works have been mostly translated into English and include Leon Roch, Donna Perfecta and Gloria. His dramas include Elektra, 1901, and Alma y Vida, 1902. See