CurL,—0On Pituri, a new Vegetable Product, 411 
seeds, and although if left to ripen, its seed-stalks are dry, and not so 
nutritious as the Milium effusum, yet the very great quantity of seed and 
heavy crop produced to the acre, makes it a plant worthy of culturo for 
fodder in suitable places, and in rotation. 
A large variety of Vetches, some of which I obtained from Malta, have 
proved themselves more prolific and of greater forage value than cither the 
summer or winter vetches more usually grown, both for cutting when 
green and in the autumn cutting, and burying in pits or silos, as managed 
in France, and in the winter digging out and feeding stock on the farms. 
The farmers might greatly increase the numbers of live stock kept and 
fattened on the farm by adopting this plan. 
Chicklin vetches I have found abundant bearers of seed, and a useful 
forage plant that all live stock will eat whenever they can get them, and it 
would fatten them quickly. 
Having extended this paper to as great a length as I dare venture to 
trespass upon the Society’s time, although there are so many other plants 
that deserve to be noticed and introduced, yet a notice of them must await 
a future opportunity if the Society should desire it, 
Art. LIX.—On Pituri, a new Vegetable Product that deserves further Investi- 
gation. By 8. M. Curt, M.D. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 31st August, 1878.] 
Tae Wellington Philosophical Society being the recognised medium of 
bringing before the scientific and general public any scientific matter, I 
venture to urge upon its experimenting members the desirability of further 
investigating a peculiar vegetable substance called Pituri, that has lately 
been studied and investigated by myself and others. 
Pituri consists of the dried leaves and other parts of plants that contain 
organic elements, and when swallowed by individuals, appears to enable 
them to sustain a severer and more continued exertion than they would be 
able to bear without its use. 
It has been long known to those acquainted with the habits of the 
aboriginals of Australia, that they used a substance bearing in the different 
tribes different names ; that when they were going upon long journeys over 
desert tracks, where they would not be able to get food or water, or when 
they were about to undertake any unusual exertion, or when any question 
of moment to them would require more mental exertion than usual, or 
