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tree is so abundant along the coast of the Ghauts, that the product 
may be obtained in very considerable quantities in the forests of My- 
sore, Malabar, and Canara. The Jury award a Second-class Medal to 
Lieutenant Evans; also a Second-class Medal to the Government of 
Goa; and another to Apothecary Wrightman, who has collected this 
product with much care, in homogeneous masses, without air-vessels, 
and free from woody fibres or other impurities. 
Captain Blagrave contributes a specimen of Barilla, or crude Sub- 
carbonate of Soda, prepared from the ashes of Salicornia Indica. 
Captain Blagrave not having furnished any data as to the mode of pre- 
paration, or cost involved, the Jury are precluded from gaining even an 
approximative value of the article. The Jury remark that this is a 
source from which large quantities of alkali might be procured, as these 
saline plants grow abundantly in the saltmarshes and back waters of 
this Presidency. It is doubtful however, whether, even taking into 
consideration the cheapness of labour, the manufacture could come 
into competition with the more economical processes for procuring this 
substance from dhobees earth (native carbonate of soda), or from sea- 
salt. 
APPENDIX A.—Statement showing the articles exported from the 
Madras territories by sea, for the year 1854 :— 
Cwts. Rupees. 
Cuscha = 85 sk: oer TR 6,984 
Kibs eee eee ee 66 1,031 
Ganbogéo oo 9 o v^. None 
Country Sarsaparilla . . . . . 269 1,699 
BSensao $2 Veta ee QI 404 2,917 
Lemon-Grass Ol . .-—. 2 is. : None 
Costus AFER, Ker; a reputed Specific against Nausea. = 
Captain J. H. Selwyn, R.N., of H.M.S. Prometheus, in March last, — 
brought home with him from the west coast of Tropical Africa, a living — 
plant of what is there considered a specifie against nausea, which, : 
through the kindness of the Honourable W. Fox Strangways, has been : 
presented to the Royal Gardens, accompanied by the biliowing descrip- 
tion :— à 
“This plant comes from the Isles de Los, about sixty piles north - — 
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