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[6] There is a tree known to the natives like an oak in appearance, from the leaves of which honey drips; this some collect and take their pleasure from it abundantly.1

1 This item comes from Onesicritus, and concerns a fig tree called "occhus." Cp. Curtius 6.4.22; Theophrastus Historia Plantarum 4.4.12; Pliny Naturalis Historia 12.18.33.

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