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quantity produced in India, which must be very large. Value, 

 about Es. 8 per cwt. 



ALLIUM MACLEANI, £aker. 



Fig. — Bot. Mag., 6707 ; Eanhimj, Sci. Papers, p. 156—57. 

 Royal Salep [Eng.). 



Hab. — Persia, abundant in the Badgbis. The bulbs 

 scalded and dried. 



Vernacular. — Badsbab or Padshab Salab [Inch Bazars). 

 History, Uses, &C. — This "bulb appears to he the 



Muhamad 



Ma/. 



It is 



brought to India by Afghans in small parcels along with the 

 dried fruit and other articles for which they find a sale in the 

 Indian Bazars. A solitary specimen of the dried bulb was 

 sent to Hanbury by Dr. J. E. Stocks, but did not at the time 

 attract attention. In 1858, however, a parcel containing about 

 100 lbs. having been offered for sale in the London market, 

 Hanbury recognised the drug as identical with the bulb he had 

 received from Dr. Stocks as Badshah Saleh, and described it in 

 the N. Repert. f. Pharm., vu., 271. In India the drug is 

 regarded as a kind of salep, and is used as such, but, as Hanbury 

 remarks, its bitterish somewhat acrid taste quite unfits it as a 

 substitute for salep in Europe. The botanical source of the 

 drug was discovered by Dr. Aitchison in 1888. 



Description.— Royal salep consists of dried bulbs whose 

 dimensions from base to apex vary from 1 J to 2 inches. The 

 largest specimens weigh 730 grains : the average weight, taldng 

 twenty bulbs, was found to be 337 grains. Allowing for con- 

 siderable irregularity occasioned by drying, the form of the 

 dried bulbs may be described as usuaUy nearly spherical, some- 

 times ovoid or nearly oblong, always pointed at the upper 

 extremity, and having at the lower either a depressed cicatrix, 

 or frequently a large, white, elevated, scar-like mark. Their 



