378 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



The Herbarium is contained in two large cabinets of American Black 

 Walnut, with glass doors, and appropriately fitted up for the reception 

 of the sheets. To a student of American Eotany this Collection would 

 be very valuable, not only for the geographical range of the "species, to 

 which great care has been devoted, but also as being of absolute autho- 

 rity as to the species of Torrey and Gray, and other. American authors, 

 with whom the Collector was in habits of the closest intimacy. 



To avoid the expense and inconvenience of removal, the Herbarium 

 would be sold at a veiy moderate price to an appHcant before Christ- 

 mas. Por further particulars apply to the Proprietor, Mr. J. Carey, 

 8, Warnford Court, Throgmorton Street, London. 



Odal Oil 



Our valued correspondent, the Rev. E. Johnson, M.A., of Pallum 

 AUeppu (coast of Cochin), South India, has sent, together with many 

 excellent dried plants of that country, a bottle of the Odal (or, as ofteu 

 wrongly spelt, AduV) Oil^ used there externally, with other oils, for 

 rheumatism, together with a bottle of the fruit. The Oil is extracted 

 from the seed, and is the product of Sarcodigvia Kleinii, of which spe- 

 cimens are also sent in the box. ** There was a curious mistake/' Mr. 

 Johnson writes, " about this in the Report on the Oils of the Madras 

 Exhibition (copied in a note in our Report on the Paris Exhibition of 

 1855, p. 25) : I was granted * Honourable Mention ' for having identified 

 ^Poorana OiV as the product of the S. Kleinii^ while the Odal Oil was 

 said to be still unknown. Now I do not know the Poorana Oil at all. 

 The only meaning I can attach to the word is Flower Oil ; while, in 



indenti/ied 



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Another little error is copied in the Report of the Paris Exhibition 

 (p. 30, note) from the Report on the Gums and Pesins of the Madras 

 Exhibition, viz. that the Mi^tt^ Fid is a resinous exudation " used for 

 incense." Mr. Johnson has kindly sent us specimens of the bark of 



Malabar 



but they are not used as incense in any part of the Cochin country 



