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^'- ^'^^i ^i^lI°^^' ^^^^- °^ V^- ^"^^""^ ™ *® ^^'i'^^' district, maintains 3 

 species ot Hhabdta : 1. R. viminea ; 2. H. sericea, Edgew., with silky pubescence, 

 stems procumbent, as thick as one's wrist, and 5-6 ft. long, aboimds in the bed 

 ot tlie barju river, ascending to 2500 ft. ; 3. B.fluvialis, Edgew. {glabra in List), 

 whoUy glatoous, very peculiar in habit, growing upon granite rocks in the 

 bed of the Ken river, Banda, often submerged for weeks, its long branches hang- 

 mg down into the water when the rooks are left exposed. These branches are 

 so flexible and tough, that they may be tied in a knot without breaking. 



P. 361. The following interesting data regarding the durability of Teak timber 

 in Bengal were communicated to me by J. C. Marshman, C.S.I. : The fort of 

 the Dutch settlement of Chinsurah was erected about the year 1695, and the 

 beams, the scantling of which was, if I remember aright, 12 in. by 15, were 

 brought from the Teak forests in Java. The settlement was transferred to the 

 English Government about the year 1826, when the old fort was pulled down 

 to make room for barracks, and the beams which I saw were all as sound and 

 perfect as when they were put in. Moreover, the Shah-in-Shah, a vessel built 

 at Cochin of Malabar Teak, which sank in the Sundarbans' some thirty or 

 thirty-five years ago, was authentically known to have been at the time more 

 than a hundred years old. 

 P. 364. Chrodendron iSiphonanthus. — Sans. Barbara, brahmani. 

 P. 369. Vitex Negundo. — Sans. Sinduha. 



P. 379. In a subsequent paper (Journ. As. Soc. xviii. i. 632) Madden calls 

 Tetranthera Roxburghii, Gar hijaur, which is right. 



P. 386. Daphne papyracea. Wall. — Vem. Bhallu soang, bhalua, Nepal, de- 

 scribed and figured in As. Researches, xiii. 385, under the name D. cannabina, 

 Loureiro. There are 2 varieties in Kamaon, according to Madden, As. Soc. Journ. 

 xvui. i. 610; one with white flowers and yellow fruit, 4000-8000 ft. — the other 

 with purple flowers and fruit, 7000-8000 ft. 

 P. 387. AquUaria Agallocha. — Sans. Aguru, agaru. 



P. 418. It is remarkable that the Fig, though a soft-wooded tree, is long-lived. 

 Pliny mentions several aged wild Fig-trees in Rome, among others, one in the 

 Forum existing in his time (70 a.d.) under the shade of which, according to 

 tradition, the wolf had suckled Romulus and Remus. Whatever the truth of 

 this and similar stories may be, the Fig-tree in Italy attains a great age. 



Dr Cleghom believes that the wild Fig-tree in Kaghan may be only F. virgata. 



Garden Figs (with eatable fruit) have repeatedly been raised from the seeds 



of the wUd Uaprifig, and the two kinds are certainly of the same species. — 



(Targioni Tozetti, Historical Notes on the Introduction of Various Plants into 



Tuscany, Journ. Hort. Soc. 1854, 168.) 



P. 424. In general appearance F. tuberculata, WaU., agrees with the speci- 

 mens which Wallich distributed under F. lanceolata, Roxb. (Cat. No. 4512), 

 and with the Burma specimens of F. pyrrhocarpa, Kurz. Roxburgh's descrip- 

 tion, and Ms III in herb. Kew, No. 1736, also agree as far as they go ; the 

 question is whether the Burma shrub and the plant cultivated in the Calcutta 

 Bot. garden show the same structure of the female flower. This I have been 

 unable to verify. This species, whatever it may be called, should not be con- 

 fused with F. pyriformis. Hook. & Am. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 328 ; Miq. Aim. 

 iii. 294, a shrub with similar leaves, which grows in similar localities, in water- 

 courses, and between rocks in torrents in East Bengal, Burma, and China, but 

 has pedunculate receptacles in the axUs of the leaves, and does not belong to 



the section Govdlia. „-,-,■..-, ■,■-,-, -.r n /. 



P. 424. F. Chincha, Roxb. iii. 534, is (doubtfuUy) identified by Madden (As. 

 Soc Journ xviii i. 644), with F. squamosa, Roxb. 531. A shrub; at the foot 

 of the mountains a small spreading tree (Madden). Leaves alternate, rough, 3- 



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