380 . Jourwal’of the Ascatic Soecety of Bengal. [August, 1906, 
Sambrani (Talbot, 1333!); Castlerock (Bhiva! Woodrow!); 
Haliyal (Woodrow! ). 
The use of the above named plants as medicinal Chiretta is, in 
the north of India, not very wide: but they appear to be. more 
ddome records that the root of the plant that he found at 
Jabalpur was very bitter. — 
The group has a very considerable range, occurring in the 
Himalaya from Hazara in the west through all the parts that we 
know, and in China south of the Yang-tze-Kiang to the neighbour: 
hood of the China Sea over Canton and in the island of Hainan 
As arule the species do not deeply penetrate the Himalaya, We 
may take as the northern limit of the group the Himalaya and the 
valley of the Yang-tze-Kiang in Central China, which, indeed, are in 
the same latitudes. South of this line the group extends intermit- 
tently to Ceylon and down the mountains of Assam and Burma to 
the rugged neighbourhood of Nat-taun g on the south-west edge of 
the Shan plateau. Over the greater part of the area of the group, 
centre of Ceylon. It is very curious that Swertia angustifolia does 
not occur in the Western Ghats. In the north of its area long- 
