10 Suggestions for the Ywiari Expedition. [Jan. 



quent time usually leads to blundering, and if not attached to specimens, 

 tickets are apt to get mixed in changing the drying paper. 



Succulent fruits should be preserved in spirit and should have parch- 

 ment tickets attached with particulars noted, and reference to dried speci- 

 mens of their leaves. The colour of the ripe fresh fruit should be noted. 



When thoroughly dry, plant specimens should be put between sheets 

 of thin dry paper and made up into convenient bundles for transit to 

 the Botanical Garden, Calcutta, by the earliest available opportunity. Wild 

 and cultivated plants should be distinguished. 



Seeds. Ripe seeds of every plant met with should be collected. They 

 should be exposed to air and gentle heat (the sun's rays are best) until 

 quite dry, and when quite dry should be made in small parcels in dry 

 paper, numbered, and ticketed. Seed parcels should be sent to the Calcutta 

 Botanical Garden by post, in bags (which will be supplied), by every available 

 opportunity. 



Bulbs (as of lilies), tubers (as of ground orchids) and fleshy under- 

 ground stems of all sorts should be collected and packed in baskets in dry 

 grass, moss, or lichen. 



Baskets are better than boxes as they permit of ventilation. But the 

 contents of these baskets must be kept dry during wet weather even at the 

 expense of temporarily preventing ventilation. 



Pieces of stems or entire leaves of succulent plants, such as house-leek 

 (Sedtim), &c, may be preserved alive for months, if treated in the way sug- 

 gested for bulbs. 



Epiphytal orchids should be collected and carried dry in baskets. 

 Fern Spores, should be shaken out (if ripe) on an old newspaper, 

 and then collected and made up in small packets. They should be sent to 

 the Botanical Garden, Calcutta, by post. 



Ripe Cones of Firs, should be kept tied up with string until the 

 seeds naturally fall out. When this occurs, the cones, except a few for 

 specimens, may be thrown away and the seeds alone kept. 



Dye Stuffs and Vegetable Medicines, also Substances used in the Arts. 

 Specimens with all available reliable particulars should be collected in 

 bazars or elsewhere ; and, wherever possible, perfect botanical specimens of 

 the plants producing them with the native name of the plant itself. 

 Paper. Specimens of, and of the material from which made. 

 Food Stuffs. Specimens of and of plants producing them. 

 Rhubarb. (Medicinal) : seeds and specimens of plants producing. 

 Camphor. Specimens of the various . sorts with full particulars of 

 mode of extraction and specimens of the plants whence derived. 



" China Root." Said to grow in the provinces of Honan, Kwangtung, 

 and Kwangsi. Specimens of product and of plant. 



