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Lagunsea ternata, Cav. C. — Byttneriece. Antichorus depressus, L. 



Hibiscus cortlatus, Hochst. Heirnianiiia arabica, Hchst. Corchovus olitorius, L. 



Trionum, L. Waltlieiia indica, L. brachycarpus, GU.P. 



amVlycavpus, Hchst. Melhania Kotscliyi, Hchst. tridens, L. 



Bammia, Link Theacece. alatus, Hochst. 



Geraniaceat. B. — CelastrecB. Grewia No. 281, = 



A. — Geraniece. Celastvus senegalensis, Lam G. commutata, Ca?u/ 



Monsonia senegalensis,G^.P. Tiliacece. ecliinulata, Caill. 



W. Pamplin, jun, 

 (To be continued). 



Art. CXIX. — Analytical Notice of the 'Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society of London^ vol. xix. pt. 1. 1842. 



III. — Some Account of Aucklandia, a new Genus of CompositEe, believed 

 to produce the Costus q/ Dioscorides. By Hugh Falconar, M.D., 

 Stiperintendent of the Hon. East India Company's Botanic Garden at 

 Saharunpore. Communicated by J. F. Royle, M.D., F.R.S. ^ L.S. 



Read November 17, 1840. 



The subject of this paper is nearly allied to our own Saussurea and 

 Carlina, from the former of which genera it seems to differ chiefly in 

 " the rays of its feathery pappus being disposed in two rows, and co- 

 hering by twos or threes at the base." It grows in great abundance 

 on the damp open slopes of the mountains surrounding the valley of 

 Cashmeer, at an elevation of from 8000 to 9000 feet above the sea-le- 

 vel, flowering in June and maturing its fruit in October. The plant 

 has but a slender medical reputation among the native Cashmeerians, 

 since it is chiefly employed by them to protect bales of shawls from 

 the attacks of moths, its odour being very pungent, and well calcula- 

 ted to effect this ; portions of the stem are also suspended from the 

 necks of children, in order to protect them from the evil eye, and to 

 expel worms. 



The author observes that he has " frequently been asked, when in 

 Cashmeer, where and for what purpose the immense quantities of the 

 root, annually collected, could find a market." We give a brief sum- 

 mary of the commercial history of the plant, extracted from the details 

 given in the paper. The roots are dug up in September and October j 

 they are chopped into pieces from two to six inches long, and in this 

 state are exported in vast quantities to the Punjab, whence the larger 

 portion goes down to Bombay, where it is shipped for the Red Sea, 

 the Persian Gulf and China ; a portion finds its way into Hindoostan 



