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India, the Rice; and from the New World, the Maize, Cassava, Arrow- 
root, Tobaeco, and so many other treasures of the vegetable world, on 
which mankind now rely for luxury and support. All these may be 
here successfully produced along with those which we enjoyed in the 
country of our youth, and will, I trust, with the mighty resources of 
our mineral wealth, render this country one of the most delightful and 
. prosperous of the globe. 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
: - Extracts from the Jurors’ Reports on some of the VEGETABLE PRODUCTS 
of the Madras Exhibition of 1855. 
CANARA. 
A very extensive collection of medicinal substances, illustrating the 
Native Pharmacopeia of Western India, has been forwarded by the 
Local Committee of Canara. This collection is not limited to indige- 
. mous products—it contains not a few articles imported from Arabia 
and elsewhere, which are often interesting, and their commercial routes 
are difficult to be traced, but with the majority of them we are already 
acquainted. The products, being of a perishable nature, did not all 
arrive in a state fit for examination, and considerable obscurity involves 
_ the history of some of them, but, as a whole, the collection exhibits 
well the condition of the Drug Bazaars in that province, and the nature 
of the traffie carried on with the Persian Gulf. 
... Amongst the Drugs we observe Gamboge, Catechu, Dikkamully Gum, 
tbebs, Colocynth, Assafetida, Wood-oil (Dipterocarpus), Cocculus cor- 
d folius, Spheranthus ?, Plumbago Zeylanica, Acorus Calamus, Guilan- 
: dina Bondue, Argemone es Cannabis Indica, Cyperus?, Cocum 
- Butter, and Sago. ~ 
~The Canara Committee Yos evidently taken much trouble in pre- 
paring the above ciletiós; and the "ir consider it worthy of honour- 
= mention. 
3 TRAVANCORE, MR. WARING. 
The most valuable of drug collections, in regard to extent, variety, 
the careful method in which they have been put up, is contributed by 
E Te. , Residency D Travancore, consisting of 241 spe- 
