but.in a specimen in our own Herbarium, the fruit is 
smooth, ovate-rounded and striate without wings ; the seeds 
when separated quite convex on one side, with two or three 
ribs, and flat on the other. — a ; 
Although this plant exudes a milky juice with the fla- 
your of Galbanum, we should doubt whether that drug is_ 
obtained from it, unless it be also a native of the north of 
Africa or Asia, as Galbanum was known to the ancients 
many ages before the discovery of the Cape, and we be- 
lieve it has never been imported from thence, but generally 
from Persia, by way of Odessa. i | 
Burson Galbanum grows to the height of eight or ten feet, 
and is woody towards the base, being a native of the Cape 
of Good Hope, it requires the protection of the green-house, | 
in which situation it is ever green. Flowers in August; 
but rarely produces seed with us. Communicated by our 
late highly valued and now lamented friend Joun WALKER, 
Esq, of Arno’s Grove, Southgate, whose loss we shall long” 
deplore. : adenti. .ciice2 ue 
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