66 CALYCIFI-ORiE. 



(1) Fruits. 



ScMiidosma f(i'tul,um, IJunge. Aiiguzeh (Pere.), Herat. ; 

 Assafcctida, Ksempfcr. [This lubel is aj)p;ireiitly in 

 the harKlwritiiig of Professor Muximowicz. Dr. 11. 

 Trimeii has hibclled it in pencil Fenda Sconjddxtaa, 

 Bth. and Hooker, which the fruits undoubteflly are.] 



(2) Fruits. 



"Ferula einihescem, Boiss. (Ann Sc. Nat., 1844, p. 316, ex. 

 parte), Planta .5 to 6 ft. in faucibus alpis, Kuhdiena, 

 16 July, 1842. Kotschy, Plant. Persic. Aust., (606). 

 [These fruits have a marked alliaceous tnsh: The 

 plant does not produce galbaniim, and belongs to the 

 F. rubnmiiHsoi Boiss. Fl. Orient, vol. ii., p. 'J9.5, and 

 to the section Scorodosnia, in which the vitt* are not " 

 visible externally. See Pharm. Joum. (.'5) xix., p. 

 355. In Pharmacographia the F. rvhrimulis, men- 

 tioned as a source of galbanum, is the alliaceous 

 plant. It is figured by Berg as F. ei-itbf'scens. 

 Bergund Schmidt, Officinelle Gewachse, iv., tal). 31.] 



(3) Fruits. 



Femla Assafotiida, L., Hango, Piti, \V. Tibet ; T. Thomson ; 

 24 Aug. 1847. Alt.; 10,000 to 12,000 ft. These 

 fruits correspond fully with those of F. Narthtx. 



(4) Fruits. 



Dm-ema Asmf(xMa, Kermanshah, Persia; 10 Oct., 18.51. 

 AV. K. Loftus. [The fruits have an alliaceous ta.ste.] 



(5) Flowers. 



Flores, Kashmir, T. Thomson; 29 Sept. 1848. [The 



petals are white, but may originally have been 



yellow. Both the pedicels and flowers are free from 



tomentum.] 



[If this specimen l>e correctly labelled, the plant of Loftus is nearly 



allied to F. alliaeca, Boiss, as stated in Bentley and Triinen, "Medicinal 



Plants," vol. ii., No. 127. The specimen in the British Museum 



. Herbarium, from W. K. Loftus, has young leaves of the same type as 



F. alliacea, Boiss ; and the fruits in the Hanbury Herbarium resemble 



those of F. rubrkaulis, Boiss. 



c, d. Leaf. 



This is a leaf of the assafcetida plant of the Edinburgh 

 Botanic Gardens (Narlhex Assafcetida, Falc), "given 

 me by Professor Balfour, and cultivated for sevei'al 

 years imder a south wall in the garden at Clapham 

 Common." 



