NARCOTICS. 



Remarks. For the controversy regarding sugar, see Bambusa arundi- 

 under " Drugs," and Saccharum officinarum, under " Sugars." 

 The juice of the Common Sugar Cane is little used as an intoxicant in 

 the Presidency. Guarapo is prepared from it, and also the Basi of the 

 Philippines. Other Grammes are distilled in India, and doubtless plants 

 of many orders besides those enumerated are used surreptitiously for the 

 preparation of wines and spirits under this Government. Thus small 

 quantities of spirit are, it is said, secretly prepared by the Hukims or 

 Wieds from rose buds, jasmine flowers, orange peel, fennel seed (Indian), 

 &c. Spirits from these would be strongly flavoured with their volatile 

 oil, and must be of the nature of weak liqueurs. 



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