- special attention as a fodder plant of particular value, 
138 UMBELLIFERZ. 
idaterk by Haji Zein-el-attar to be the xaveadis of Galen. After ay 
discussion in which he says that the truedrug comes from Egypt, 
ips some 0 be jection with buzidan, ail by others to be only 
shania to it, is called by the Arabs Mustaajil and Uruk-el- vid 
with in India; it is a shrivelled rhizome of a light brot 
colour, marked with transverse scars like Galangal, the taste 
sweet and gummy; when soaked in water it swells great! 
becomes quite soft, and is easily cut like preserved gingé 
The drug comes fromi China. 
PRANGOS PABULARIA, Lindi. 
Fig.— Wall. Pl. As. Rar, ti,, 7, t. 212. 
Hab.—tThibet, Cashmere. 
‘Vernacular,—Prangos (Thib.), Komal (Hind.), Fiturasaliyl 
(Indian Bazars), Badién-i-kohi (Afghan.). 
History, Uses, &c.—Sanskrit writers mention a pla 
called Komal and Avi-priya, or “dear to sheep,” which 
probably P. pabularia. In the first quarter of the pre 
century this plant created considerable interest in England. 
William Moorcroft, a veterinary surgeon of the Bengal Ar 
had heard that it wasan important factor asa food for cattle, 
_ was occasionally used as @medicine. When onan expeditic 
in 1822 to Upper Assam, for the purpose of opening trade r 
tions with the Chinese authorities at Bla, he made an exc 
sion fo Draz, in order to collect specimens of the plant and to 
study its use as a fodder plant by the natives. The p 
which hitherto had been unknown to botanists, was sent to ' 
Director of the Horticultural Society of London as deservi 
worthy to be cultivated in England and her colonies 
following reasons:—In its native Sees the dried 
