370 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF [ Orchidee. 
by different botanists, and are enumerated by Sprengel. Orchis Morio, mascula and 
militaris give, according to M. Beissenhirtz, the best salep in Europe; O. maculata 
and Jatifola, a little inferior; but that of O. bifolia is stated to be of bad quality. 
Cullen, on the contrary, says, ‘‘I have seen it prepared in this country from Orchis 
bifolia, as pure and as perfect as any that comes from Turkey.” In France, Salep indi- 
gene is said to come chiefly from.Nivernois, The Oriental Salep is obtained in Europe 
from Turkey, Natolia, and Persia, but the plants which produce it are unknown. 
In India it is obtained from the North, that is Caubul and Cashmere, and sold at a 
high price even at the Hurdwar fair. On sending gardeners from the Saharunpore 
Botanic Garden, in company with the northern merchants, they found the Salep plant 
in the hills, not far from the Jhilum, and near where the road from India to Cashmere 
crosses that river. The specimens in fruit, with tubers attached, which resembled the 
salep of commerce, appear to Dr. Lindley to be those of a species of Eulophia, and 
which I therefore ventured to name E. vera. The probability of this genus yielding salep 
is confirmed by E. compestris, which is common in and near the Kheree Pass, yielding 
some of very good quality, as I have proved by experiment, that is, boiling for a short 
time, and afterwards carefully drying. This I was led to do, by hearing that the natives 
were in the habit of preparing and selling it by the name of Salep misree, as a substi- 
tute for the larger and finer salep of Cashmere. Another kind seems to be prepared 
in the Himalayas, as Lieut. Hutton, in an account of an excursion to the Broang 
Pass, states that the grassy hills between Phagoo and Muttiana produce during the 
rains immense quantities of a species of Orchis, which the natives call Salep misree, the 
roots of which are sometimes collected and dried, and afterwards brought to Simla, or 
sent to the plains for sale.” The same statement is made respecting one of the Orchidee 
at Mussooree, probably E. herbacea, which is common there. There is no doubt that 
very excellent salep might be prepared, both at the foot of and in the hills; while the 
genuine plant might also be introduced, if it already has not been so, by Dr. Falconer, 
from Cashmere. Great care would require to be paid to the habits of the plants, as 
they take some years to come to perfection, so as not to irradicate them after being 
introduced ; particular tracts of the hills might be cleared only in successive years, as 
is done with the cutting of fir or other forests grown for timber. 
Aceras angustifolia. Tab. 87, fig. 1. Lindley. Genera and species of Orchideous plants, p: 282, 
Hab. Gossainthan. (Wallich). Mussooree and Simla. (Royle). 
Peristylus goodyeroides. Tab. 87, fig. 2. Lindley, l.c. p. 298. 
Hab. Nepal. (Wallich). Mussooree and Sabathoo. (Royle). 
' Herminium gramineum. Tab.87. fig. 8. Lindley. 1.c. p. 305. 
_ Hab. Nepal. (Wallich). Mussooree. (Royle). 
Cyrtopera flava. Tab. 88. Lindley, 1. c. p. 189. 
Hab. Morung Mountains. (Hamilton). Deokhutul, on banks of the Tonse. (Royle). 
Dendrobium alpestre (Lindl. sp. n.) caulibus brevibus ovatis ceespitosis erectis vaginis foliorum laxé 
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