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[Sect. XII. 



Green Tea. — Is indigo or any other vegetable (iye used 

 to colour the green tea in the northern provinces of 

 China? Specimens of the plant and dye so employed 

 are desiderata. Is turmeric or any yellow vegetable dye 

 used in conjunction with it, or with Prussian blue ? 



Japan Wax, — The true source of this wax. 



Assafoetida. — From what species of Ferula is this 

 extracted^ and bow? Does the same species yield the 

 Tear Assa/wtida and the lumji ? Specimens of the one 

 or several assafoetida plants should be procured, with 

 the gum-resin produced by each species. 



JPatehaoiil 



Puchd Pat 



nown 



of comparatively recent introduction to Europe. It is 

 referred to a plant now described by botanists under the 

 name of Pogosteyrton Patchaouli ; but we are ignorant of 

 the mode of its preparation and the exact locaUty where 

 it is produced. 



Saqo of 



— Is it from a Cycas^ and what species ? 



Also specimens of sago in different stages of manufacture, 

 with the trees yielding them^ from \h(i various parts of 

 the Indian Archipelago ; so that we may identify the 

 particular kinds of sago yielded by the several sago- 



palms. Is the Ceylon sago the granulated pith of the 

 talipot'jjalm (Corypha umbrciculifera)9 



Korarima. — A large kind of cardamom, or aromatic 

 fruit (an Amomum ?), found in the markets of Shoa, but 

 probably the produce of a country farther to the west. 



^Scammon?/,— Particulars of tlie manufacture — or, to 



correctly — the adulteration of Scammony, 



speak more 



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carried on at Smyrna. AVhat is the purgative resin or 

 um-resin fif any) v/liich i* mlrl^rl. with fhpt view of 



is added, with the view 



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