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been known to be an Umbellifer. Modern travellers who have visited 
Barka (now an altogether desolate land, with numerous ruins of 
rot 135. Miller, when engaged in his work on the coins of 
was only supplied a few years ago, when Lehmann, Bunge, = 
Borsaezow again discovered the plant, which was described by Bunge 
as the type of a new genus, under the name of Scorodosma fatidum. 
Besides Kaempfer’s plant, we know now, however, ‘a second plant 
Yielding Assafcetida, discovered in 1838 by Falconer in North Cashmere, 
and described by him i his 
published an excellent figure of it in Bot Mag., t. 5168. The plantis 
7 feet high, the leaves grow in pairs close together, and the sheaths 
accuracy would be employed. A minute comparison of the figures of 
the two plants will strengthen our belief in this. 
* Mém. de l’Acad. Imp, des Sc. 8. Petersb., 1860—61. 
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