550 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
No. CL. Soorkk; red. Safflower petals, turmeric, and lime 
juice. 
No. CII. Warinjee; Orange-coloured. Safflower petals, tur- 
meric, lime juice, and a little indigo. 
No. CIII. Nafurmanee ; Marvel of Peru coloured. Safflower 
petals, lime juice, and some indigo. 
- No. CIV. Wangunnee or Baingnee; Egg-plant coloured. 
Safflower petals, lime juice, and much indigo. 
No. CV. Safflower seeds, from which oil is obtained. - 
No. CVI. Safflower petals. When gathered they are well 
beaten with sticks to develope the colour, and made up and kept 
in shops in this state. 
No. CVII. The same, beaten up as done just before using. 
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Notes written during a short botanical excursion to Suan BILA- 
wuL,* by J. E. Srocxs, M. D. Vaccinator at Scinde. 
Kurrachee, 20th April, 1848. 
You will think my letters are not like angel’s visits: however, 
I think it better to send you the plants as fresh and green as I 
can. The present parcel is scarcely dry. I returned from Shah 
Bilawul highly gratified with my “ proceeds.” 
I left Kurrachee on the 17th March, after sending the box for 
the Kew Museum, by that day’s steamer. I rode to Muggur 
Peer, about 10 miles N. of Kurrachee, a pretty valley embosomed 
in hills, about a mile in length and breadth, in which are pleasant 
date-groves, with the white Musjids peeping above their feathery 
crown. Here lived and died a Mussulman Hermit, whose holiness 
and conduct tamed the ungainly alligators, and brought them to 
dwell near him living, and continue near his tomb and Musjid 
when he departed this life in the odour of sanctity. 
* * Shah Bilawul, in Beloochistan, a hamlet of Lus, regarded with veneration by the 
Mahometans, in consequence of its containing the tomb of a reputed saint. It is 
situated in a narrow valley embosomed in the Hubb mountains, and watered by a 
small stream flowing from a fine spring which never fails. Here is a mosque, with — 
a cemetery attached to it, and the Beloochees believe that peculiar blessings attend the 
souls of those buried there.” Lat. 25° 49’, long. 67° 5’. (Thornton’s Gazetteer of 
the countries adjacent to India, on the north-west.) 
