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bosum. The order Ericacex is the predominant one; we find, beside the 
= co mentioned, Rhododendron album, Bl. (2), Agapetes flori- 
bunda, Don, other species of the genus, Gaylussacia lanceolata, Bl., 
Parnettia raved Zoll., Gaultheria punctata, Bl. (an odoriferous plant of 
great beauty), @. lewcocarpa, Bl., and ai species of Clethra(?). The 
genus Rubus is well represented. Dodonea viscosa, Andr. (?), is common 
towards the eastern part. The orchid that approaches nearest the craters, 
is Thelymitra javanica, Bl. 
These are the more common and more characteristic plants of the 
three crateric regions of J = ee to M. Zollinger. 
8. otus or Sacred Bean of India.—Dr. Buist gives some notes on 
the Lotus or Sacred Bean of Tadia, in the Transactions of the Bombay 
Geographical Society. He says, “The lotus itself is one of the most 
ele — eastern flowers, and seems from time ———— to have nlite 
uty. 
“The otus flower is repeated, ad infinitum, in the earliest eastern sculp- 
tures, as that on which Bhuddah sat, and from which Bramah sprung. 
In the Cave Temples of Salsette, dated back several centuries before 
Christian _ it is represented everywhere at once as an emblem and an 
ornamen 
Dr. Dat thinks ie Dr. Lindley is ee in saying that the wicks 
used on sacred occasions by the Hindoos, a ade of the spiral vessels 
of the arn of the lotus. They are reniery he says, of the dried flower- 
stalk or leaf-stalk; he does not believe that all the spirals of all the 
‘lotuses in India, from the Himalayas to the line, would make a lump 
wick a yard long of the a of the finger. Individually - spirals are 
finer than gossamer; the leaf is fourteen by sixteen inches ter; 
the stalks about six + eight feet long, and seldom rise higher than two 
or two and a half feet above the surface of the water. The leaf is _ 
of the be ae 
Tt repela the water when pressed under it. This is referred to in some of 
the native writin, = eeion of one of which is ~_ by Dr. Buist : 
