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rather Lo the true Love-apples intended. Dudaim arc hut twieo mentioned in 

 Scripture (Gen. xxx. 14, 18, and in Solomon's Song, vii. 13), in both instances in 

 connexion with scenes of love, or in otlier words as ' philtres' or provocatives of the 

 passion ; but for a fuller exposition of this subject reference may be made to Inman's 

 work,' under the heading ' ilandralics,' and La ilytliologie des I'lantes,- vol. ii. p. 213. 



Order Z1XZ[]!EII.\CE-T]. 



Flowers lierniaphrodito, irn'gular. I'uriuiitli su])erior, double ; outer herbaceous, 

 triphyllous; inner pctaloid, irregular, composed of petals and staminodes. Stamen 

 solitary, anterior.^ 'Anther 2-eidled. Oranj inferior, usually 3-celled. Oiules 

 anatropous. Fruit usually a capsule. Seeds with 2 albumens, a farinaceous and 

 a homy. Emhri/o with the cotyled<mary eml sheathed by the vitellus, the radicular 

 fi'ee and touching the hilum. Herbs with creeping or tuberous rhizome. 



CosTus, Linnteics. 



C. AEGrRornTLLU.s, "Wall. (M.). 



Pa-lang-toung-weh. 

 Thu-leh-hpc-dO (Sgau). 



C. sPECiosus, Sm. (il.). 



This is not the 'costum' of the ancients, which is still largely used in China 

 in precisely the same way as it was in Home for burning as incense. 



" Costum molle date et blaudi mihi thuris honores 



Terque focum circa laneus orbis eat." — Properfins, Lib. iv. (i, .5. 



The root of C. speeiosus is void of scent, and the plant above alluded to has been 

 ascertained by Falconer to be the root of Aueklaiidia east us, Falconer, one of the 

 Compositfc, which grows on the Himalaya between 7500 and 9000. Its name in 

 Kashmir is 'Kooth,' and it is there used to scent shawls and protect them from the 

 moth. The roots are dug up in September and simply dried, after being cut up in 

 lengths of 6 inches. In Kashmir it costs about 1 rupee 3 annas a hundredweight, 

 but at Jagadri, on the .Jumna, the price averages 10 rupees, and nearly double in the 

 Chinese ports, where it ultimately finds its way. In the markets of Calcutta and 

 Bombay it is called Putchuk. See lialfour's Ci/e/opadia of India. 



^loxoLOPiius, IFaUieli. 



M. ELEG.IXS, "Wall. (M.). 



Kwon-ka-dO. 



CiTvcrir.4, Liiiiuctis. 



*C. LOXGA, Roxb. 



Hsa-nwen. Common turmeric. 



C. KosroKAXA, "«'all. 



Hman-then. 



C. .SKUGINOSA, Puixb. 

 C. ATTKXUATA, Wall. 



C. coMosA, Iloxb. 



C. ELATA, Koxl). 

 C. ORXATA, "Wall. 

 C. CORDATA, Wall. 

 C. PARVIFLOKA, Wall. 

 C. PETIOLATA, Ro.xb. 

 C. PLICATA, "^'all. 

 C. STROBILIXA, Wall. 



' Ancient Faiths omlindicd in -Ancient X.mics, hy Thomas Tnm.in, M.D. London. ISfiS. 



* I.a Mythologiedes I'lantes on Ics Legends du Kegne vegetal, p^ir .\ngelo de Ciubcinatis, I'aris, 1S82. 



