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3. The essential character. 4. Observations on the geogra- 
phical distribution. 5. Properties and uses, under-which the 
celebrated Bish or Bikh of the Nepalese (Aconitum. ferox, 
Wall.) is particularly noticed, as ranking among the most 
virulent of vegetable poisons. 6. General observations, fol- 
lowed by remarks on certain genera and species.—In the 
same way are also characterized the DirrENrAcEX and the 
Macnouracez. ‘The plates represent, 1. Clematis Mun- 
roana, R.W., and 2. Ranunculus reniformis, Wall., as illus- 
trative of RANUNCULACEE. 3. Acrotrema Arnottianum, R. 
W., and Schumacheria castaneæfolia, Wall. (D1LLENIACEZ.) 
5. Michelia Pulneyensis, R.W. (Macnoiacem.) 6. Uvaria 
Narum, (ANoNACEX.) 7. Cocculus macrocarpus, (MEn1s- 
PERMACEX.) and 8. Berberis tinctoria, Lesch., (BERBER- 
1DEÆ.) In the 4th No., the Order MarvacEz, to which the 
Cotton belongs, includes a long dissertation on that import- 
ant article of commerce, and figures of four kinds are given. 
The subject of the cultivation of Cotton in India is amply 
treated of, and reasons are adduced for the want of success 
which has so generally been experienced. |. ** Could,” thus 
Dr Wight asks, ** could any thing be done to improve the 
quality and marketable value of Indian Cotton? To me,” 
he continues, **it appears that much might be done towards 
the attainment of this object. According to the system 
usually pursued in native husbandry, the soil is rarely, if ever 
manured, is but indifferently ploughed, the seeds are never 
changed, but the produce from the same stock is constantly 
resown, and that too usually broad-cast, so thick that the plants - 
choke each other in their growth; the young shoots are - 
never topped; in short, nothing is adopted having a tendency 
to improve the quality, or increase the quantity of the pro- — 
duce by invigorating the plant, while the land is still farther 
exhausted and the plants yet more choked, by crops of other 
grain being taken off, while the Cotton is. advancing to 
maturity. When the crop is at length ready to be gathered, - __ 
ho care is used in the collecting to keep it clean and free — 
from dry and broken leaves, and what is much worse, when i 
