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in the Japanese market as a drug; for Schaer in 1875 so des- 
cribed it as a Japanese drug (fide Just’s Jabresbericht, 1875, 
made by Thomas Christy, in the Pharmaceutical Journal, 1879- 
80, p. 23, confirmed the statement, as well as did Christy him- 
ay. 
as if Christy and Holmes had together determined the drug 
as C. anemonefolia. 
We have in India two sources for the root. We receive 
it at Sadiya from the Mishmis in neat little wicker baskets, 
and we receive it also sea from China,—not in one form 
only, but, as Dymock remarks (Vegetable Materia Medica of 
Western India, second edition, 1885, p. 19), in two forms. 
We thus have in India three kinds of the roots of Coptis. 
opose first to give an account of the plant in the Mishmi 
hills, and thereafter to consider it as grown further east. 
o one has ever penetrated quite far enough into the Mishmi 
country to reach those parts where Tita is grown, but Griffith 
in 1836 approached them. He says that Coptis Teeta is found 
on high hills on which there was then (November 14th) snow : 
that it was cultivated near Khosha’s ‘‘ native place ”’ (place not 
recorded, but somewhere not far in the hills north of Sadiya), that 
its flower-buds were just forming on November 14th; that the 
Mishmis knew nothing about the period of its flowering, as they 
told him thatit flowered in the rains at the same time as the Dhak 
flowers in Assam, whereas it was forming flowers in November : 
which remarks I interpret as meaning Tita is found wild at con- 
siderable elevations where it flowers during the rains, and is also 
1 With the use of the name Mamira or Mamiran sometimes ascribed 
to Coptis Teeta, and with the various plants so called, I propose to deal 
at another time 
