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ON TWO TUBERIFORM VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS FROM TRAVANCORE 
The total absence of veins and different texture forbid its 
black continuous cuticle, 
junction with Mylitta. 
The second production, also sent by Dr. Waring to Mr. Hanbury from Travancore, is 
known by the name of Carom-pallagum, which may be rendered Black Fallagum, Pal- 
lagum signifying a medicinal substance. It is dug from the chalk-beds in the mountains 
which separate Travancore from Tinnivelly. The hill people, who bring it occasionally 
into Trevandrum for sale, state that it is the root of a small plant with a red flower 
is much esteemed by the native doctors for various complaints. 
It 
The account, however, which the natives give of its origin is evidently wrong ; for it 
cannot be pretended that, like P achy ma, it may be a peculiar state of the root of some 
Phsenogam. Its structure is in fact very like that of Mylitta australis ; and though there 
is a slight difference in the outer coat, it is probably the same thing with the Mylitta of 
China, known under the name of Jjity-wan, and to which Horaninow has given the name 
of Mylitta lapidescens (' Catalogus Medicamentorum Sinensium,' Petropoli, 1856, p. 34). 
The specimens, indeed, are not so much advanced as those of the Luy-wan, so that the 
peculiar sacs are few and only partially developed ; but there is no doubt that the struc- 
ture of the two is identical. 
