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to be very fond of it, and was supplied with the plant from the Royal Gardens at Kew. At the Doctor's request I 
have recently obtained a quantity of the dried grass from the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, on purpose to ascertain 
whether the delightful aroma admits of being preserved in this state, in which case the drug would deserve to be 
restored to the European Materia Medica. There are few people who have experienced the influence of an Indian 
climate, who have not found benefit from the wholesome and refreshing beverage prepared from this grass. 
Plate CCLXXX. Fig. 1. A branchlet of the panicle, with two paired spikes. — 2. Hermaphrodite flower, dissected. 3. Male, ditto. 
GARDNERA WALLICHII. Tab. 281. 
Forus oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatissimis ; pedunculis axillaribus trifloris vel bifido-trifloris, 
villosis, antheris 4, coalitis. 
Gardnera Wallichii, Herb. Wight. 
Habitat in montibus ad Salem (Wight). 
corollis suprå densé 
FnurEx volubilis, levis. Rami cylindrici, graciles. Fora opposita, patentia, subdistantia, oblongo-lanceolata, attenuato-acumina- 
tissima, integerrima, basi acuta, coriacea, lucida, subtüs pallida, costå elevatå, nervis intra marginem arcuato-anastomosantibus gracilibus, 
venis reticulatis. PETroLr unguiculares. Pepuncuur axillares oppositi, solitarii, petiolo bis térve longiores, triflori, vel bifido-triflori, 
cum flore solitario in divisura; pedicelli semipollicares, basi medioque bracteolati. Frores magnitudine formá et structurá prorsüs 
illorum Gardnere ovate ; corolla suprà dense obtecta villis brevibus albicantibus. 
I am greatly obliged to my kind friend Dr. Wight for specimens of this interesting plant, and for the drawing from 
which the Plate has been engraved. In 1820 I gave a detailed account of the genus, and of the only species then 
known to me, (Gardnera ovata,) in Roxburgh's Flora Indica, vol. 1. p. 400, of which a figure has been added to this 
volume (Plate 231). Four years afterwards I published in the 2nd volume of Roxburgh's work, p. 318, an account 
of a second species, which I found in Nipal, namely, G. angustifolia. Our plant is different from both. 
Plate CCLXXX, Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Corolla. 
ROXBURGHIA VIRIDIFLORA. Tab. 282. 
Roxburghia viridiflora, Smith Exot. Bot. vol. 1. p. 111. t. 57. Id. in Cyclop. Reesiana, in loco. 
Stemona tuberosa, Lour. Flor. Cochinch. vol. 2. p. 404. 
Habitat in Chittagong (F. Hamilton). Ad litora sinds Siamensis (G. Finlayson). In horto botanico Caleutte floret 
Decembre—Februario; fructificat Martio. 
This plant has been fully described, with the exception of the details of the fruit, by the late excellent President of 
the Linnean Society. His opinion as to its specific difference from Rowburghia gloriosoides of Dryander (in Rox- 
burgh’s Coromandel Plants, vol. 1. p. 29. t. 32.) is confirmed by the flowering specimens preserved in the Honourable 
Company's Herbarium, (now in the possession of the Linnean Society,) as well as by the smaller size of the fruit of 
Dryander’s plant, of which I have an incomplete drawing made many years ago from samples which had ripened in 
the Calcutta Garden. In the Herbarium of Sir J. E. Smith there is a specimen which blossomed in the late Lady 
Amelia Hume’s stove at Wormleybury, corresponding exactly with our species. There is likewise a specimen in 
Mr. Finlayson's Herbarium, without flower or fruit, labelled * Dioscorea 2 which seems to be the same as our plant 
and Loureiro's Stemona tuberosa, quoted with a doubt by Dr. Roxburgh in his manuscript Flora Indica, under 
R. gloriosoides. : ; j 
I am enabled to supply what has hitherto been a desideratum, —å complete carpological account of the genus 
Rowburghia,—through the liberality of Professor Lindley, who has kindly furnished the following description, illustrated 
by a drawing made under his immediate directions by Miss Drake, a very skilful and elegant artist, from specimens 
preserved in spirits, recently received from Calcutta. It is with feelings of pride and satisfaction that I am thus 
enabled, through the friendship of one botanist, to contribute to the memory of another, to whom the science owes far 
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