DRUGS. 



Remarks. Probably confounded by Avicenna with A. Galanga. This 

 was supposed the source of the Zedoaries until Roxburgh traced them to 

 his two Curcumas above noted. 



Zingiber Cassumanar. Rox. Downy-leaved Ginger. 



Linn. Sytt. Monandria Monogynia. 



The tuber, Zedoaria flava, Cassumanar. 



Vernacular. Vana-adrukum, Sans. Bun-ada, Hind. Beng. Kar- 

 pooshpa, Tel. 



Habitat. East Indies. 

 Zingiber Zerumbet. Roscoe. Broad-leaved Ginger. 



Linn. Syst. Monaildria Monogynia. 



The tuber, Zerumbet. 



Vernacular. Booteh, Mahaburree-booteh, Buch, Mahabnrree-buch, 

 Hind. 3hd Beng. Wal-inguru, Cey. 



Habitat. East Indies. 

 Remarks. Booteh is also a name of Maize, and Buck of Sweet Flag. 



Linn. Syst. Monandria Monogynia. 



The root. 



Vernacular. Deroonuj-akrubee, Arab. 



Habitat. ? 



Remarks. This root has been referred to Doronicum Pardalianches, 

 W., Great Leopard's Bane of Britain, N. O. 120, and the UKOVITOV of 

 Theophrastus according to Fraas. It appears to me however to be a gin- 

 gerwort. 



N. O. 236. IRIDACE^E. IRIDS. 

 CrOCUS sativUS. Allioni. Saffron Crocus. 



Linn. Syst. Triandria Monogynia. 



The dried stigma, Saffron. 



Vernacular. Kasmirajamma, Kunkuma, Sans. Zofran, Keysur, 

 Hind. Khoongoomapoo, Tarn. Khoon-koomapoo, Kunkuma, Tel. 

 Kohoon, Cey. IToorkum, Zafran, Arab. Kerkum, Zafaran ? 

 Abeer ? Pers. Thanwen, Burmah, Saffaron> Connyer, Malaya. 



Habitat. Asia Minor ; Cashmir ? Naturalized over temperate 

 Europp. 



Remarks. The Carcos (Calmet) of the " Song of Songs" of Solomon, 

 and ih&KpoKos of Homer and the Greeks. Hippocrates (Pereira) speaks 



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