10 . MEMOIR OF DANIEL HANBUHY. 



consulted the Spanish edition published at Madrid, 

 1601-15" a fact that of a surety pleased his mind; 

 for it not only led him to an original source of knowledge, 

 but took him back a few more years into the seventeenth 

 century. 



One thing is remarkable in these papers, that however 

 recondite in their speculations, they so constantly land 

 the investigator in distinct, reliable, and practical result. 

 His barque was never showy, nor, though classic, did it 

 ever indulge in painted sails still less was it swift ; but 

 the steersman, quietly self-reliant, made straight for the 

 destined port. 



Gamboge. i n fa e "Botanical Origin of Gamboge" (1864) the 

 source of the commercial article was traced to Garcinia 

 Morella ; that of Savanilla-Rhatanhia (1865) to Kra- 

 *rcsuks! 1 mer ^ a Ixina, L. var. fi Granatensis Triana. The Lesser 

 Galangal (by the aid of Dr. Hance) to Alpinia qffici- 

 narum ; and the account of this, the Radix Galangce of 

 Pharmacy, was presented to the Linnean Society with 

 accumulated historical illustration. 



Another specimen of his varied and curious learn- 

 ing is afforded by the short paper on " Penghawar 

 Djambi," in which Dutch literature, old French and 

 English poetry, German and Latin, Mr. John Smith and 

 the British Museum, were pressed into the service of the 

 writer. 



Tampico Jalap proved to be the root of a new species 

 growing in the interior of Mexico, the Ipomcea simulans. 

 In his father's garden at Clapham, this plant and the 

 common Ipomcea purga could be . seen side by side, 

 where both their points of difference and similarity might 

 be observed at leisure. 



The Ipomcea simulans and the Liquidambar orientate 



