GO MEDICINAL PLANTS REQUIRED FOR INDIA. 



I may enumerate the 

 Peruvian bark tree, 

 Gum guiacum tree,* 

 Quassia tree, 



Logwood tree, 



Tropical America and 

 the West Indies. 



Copaiva balsam tree, 



Tolu balsam tree, 



Sarsaparilla, 



Ipecacuanha Plant, and the Jalap Convolvulus. 



The acquisition of all or of any of these would 

 be most desirable. 



That there exist, between Cape Comorin and the 

 Himalya, localities suited to many, if not to all, of 

 them, is hardly to be doubted. 



Probably the mountain valleys and jungles in 

 Malabar, Wynaad, or Coorg, assimilate in climate 

 to many of the countries where they at present 

 grow, and it would be of the utmost importance 

 that they should be conveyed direct from their native 

 soil to the situations intended for them in India. 



* We have in the Calcutta Botanic Garden the Guajac, Quassia, 

 Sarsaparilla, and Manettia cordifolia, (one of the Ipecacuanha plants) ; 

 all of which may be expected to become naturalized in those parts 

 of India more suited to them than Lower Bengal. The Logwood ia 

 very extensively cultivated as an ornamental shrub. H. H. S. 



