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bar.; but certainly not Bona-noxr, or Gertner is 
wrong. His plantis my Z. Bona-nox. You will find 
both, drawn and described, in my sixth hundred ; 
viz. No. 567. and 568. 
With a good deal of address, and the help of 
friends, I have been so fortunate as to procure living 
plants of Sir William Jones’s Jatawansi, the real 
Spikenard, which he concluded to be a Valerzan 
from the imperfect description of it he received 
from a friend; for he never saw the living plant. 
I have had them a month: they as yet show only 
a small lanced leaf or two. The names they were 
sent under by the Deb Rajah of Bootan, are Jata- 
wansit and Nampé or Nanpé. Garcias ab Horto’s 
figure of the drug is excellent. In short, every cir- 
cumstance corroborates Sir W. Jones’s plant to be 
the real Spikenard of the ancients. You will soon 
see, in the 4th volume of the Asiatic Researches, 
what he further said on this subject, when he saw 
Dr. Blane’s account of an Andropogon which Dr. 
B. took for it. I am promised the living plants of 
this dndropogon. It grows far north, on the skirts 
of the mountains. It is a medicine of repute 
amongst the people of these countries *. 
But let me stop my pen. 
W. RoxBureu. 
* Subsequently to the very excellent paper upon this plant, 
given by Sir William Jones in the Asiatic Researches, the plant 
here referred to by Dr. Roxburgh flowered ; and, satisfied that 
it was really a Valerian, he published it as such with a descrip- 
tion and figure. Sir William Jones’s own paper, and that of 
Dr. Roxburgh, have both been reprinted in Sir W. Jones’s Works, 
ii. p. 9. Further and very curious observations on the Spike- 
