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XXXIII. 



BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



ON THE SPIKENARD OF THE ANTIENTS . 



intended as a Supplement to the late 

 Sir William Jones's Papers on that Plant. 



BY WILLIAM ROXBURGH, m. d. 



VALERIANA JATAMANSI. 



GENERIC CHARACTER* 



"pLOWERS triandrous, leaves entire, four-fold, the 

 inner radical pair petioled, and cordate ; the rest 

 smaller, sessile, and sub-lanceolate -, seeds crowned 

 with a pappus. 



V. J at am an si of Sir William Jones, See Asia- 

 tic Researches, vol. 2, page 405, 417, and page 1 iS 

 of this volume. 



November 6th, 1794. I received from the Ho- 

 nourable C. A, Bruce, Commissioner at Coos-Bevhar y 

 two small baskets with plants of this valuable druo-. 

 He writes to me on the 27th September (so long had 

 the plants been on the road) that he had, the day be- 

 fore, received them from the Deb Rajah of Bootan ; 

 and further says, that the Booteahs know the plant by 

 two names, viz. Jatamansl and Pampe> or Paumpc\ 



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