2IO CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



Artemisia Indica of Eastern Asia. Called in Persian "arlemasaya," in Sanscrit "dana"or 

 "dona" (Lindl.), in the environs of Bombay "doona" or " mustaroo " (Graham), in Hindustanee 

 "mastaru" or " majtari," in Telinga "machipatri," in Tamil " machipattiri," in Bengalee "mastam" 

 (Drur.), in Tagalo "tinisas" or " ca Maria" or "Santa Maria" (Blanco), in Japan "gai" or usually 

 "iamogi" or "motjigusa" or "furs" (Thunb.) ; and perhaps the " armoise " collected, according to 

 an ode of the time of Ping-wang* — (Chi-King i. 6. 8) : the " ai " herb of Meng-tseu ii. I. 9 dried for 

 three years before being used medicinally, is referred to this genus by Stanislaus Julien : A. Indica is 

 known to grow in China and Nepal (Lindl.); was observed by Kaempfer, and Thunberg, in Japan, 

 and vioxa made of the leaves ; by Blanco, on the Philippines, long known and much used medicinally 

 among the native women, and moxa made by the Chinese of the dried leaves. Westward, the "dona" 

 flower was worshipped by the Hindus in the Festival of spring (Puranas, and H. H. Wils. ind. dram, 

 ii. 264) ; and the "d'hyama" or "maruvaka" of Susrutas sutr. 28 to chikits. 22 and kalp. 7, is re- 

 ferred here by Hessler : A. Indica was observed by Roxburgh, and Wight, and Drury, on the high 

 lands of Mysore and other parts of Hindustan; by Rheede x. pi. 45, in Malabar; by Graham, at 

 "Poorundhur Fort" and "common on high lands in the Deccan ; " by myself, at the Karli cave-tem- 

 ple ; and according to Lindley, is considered " a powerful deobstruent and antispasmodic." (See A. 

 vulgaris) 



768 B. C. (= 804 y. 49^-ff d. — " 38th year " of twelve lunations of 2 K. xv. 8), Jeroboam II. 

 succeeded by his son Zachariah, fourteenth king of Israel. Who reigned "six months " only. 



767 B. C. (= 767 y. 97ff §- d. = 804 y. 49^5 5- d. — " 39th year " of twelve lunations of 2 K. xv. 

 13), Zachariah slain and succeeded by Shallum. Who, after reigning "a full month," was slain and 

 succeeded by Menahem, sixteenth king of Israel. 



The Assyrian emperor Pul invading the land, " a thousand talents of silver " paid him by Mena- 

 hem, to be confirmed in the kingdom of Israel (2 K. xv. 19, and 1 Chron. v. 26). The emperor Pul 

 or Phulus is mentioned by Alexander Polyhistor (in Euseb. i. 4 p. 18). 



One hundred and sixth generation. May 1st, 767, mostly beyond youth: Jeiel the scribe (2 

 Chron. xxvi. 11), the prophet Hosea : the Greek poets Cinaethon, Eumelus, Antimachus of Teos, 

 Cercops of Miletus, Creophilus, and Stasinus of Cyprus. 



After the affray at the temple of Diana (Heraclid. p. 214, Strab. vi. p. 257, and Clint, i. p. 251), 

 Rhegium in Southern Italy founded by Greek colonists from Chalcis in Euboea. The expedition 

 was accompanied by fugitive Messenians from the Peloponnesus. 



Clematis vitalba of Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. A woody vine called in Britain 

 travellers joy (Prior), in Germany " teufelswirn " (Grieb), in Italy "vitalba" or " clematitide " (Lenz), 

 in Greece " agrioampSli " (Sibth.) ; in which we recognize the " ampSlon arsSnothelun " investing a 

 wild fig-tree on the site selected for the new city, in fulfilment of the "arsSna thelus opuiei " of the 

 Oracle — (Diodor. viii. 25); also the "klematitis " mentioned confusedly by Pamphilus (Galen simpl. 

 med. vii. 31), by Dioscorides iv. 179 as climbing around trees like "smilax," and having acrid ulcerat- 

 ing leaves : C. vitalba was observed by Forskal, Sibthorp, and Chaubard frequent in hedges from the 

 Peloponnesus throughout the Greek islands to Constantinople ; is known to grow also in the Crimea 

 (Lindl.). Westward, the account of the "clematida" by Pliny xxiv. 49 seems taken from Diosco- 

 rides : but C. vitalba is described by Lobel pi. 626 ; is termed " virgin's bower " by Gerarde (Prior), 

 "c. sylvestris latifolia"by Tournefort inst. 293; was observed by Lenz in Italy, by Forskal near 

 Marseilles, and is known to grow throughout middle Europe as far as Britain (Jacq. aust. pi. 308, 

 Curt. lond. iv. pi. 37, and Pers.). Its "fruit and leaves " according to Lindley are " acrid and vesi- 

 cant, dangerous taken internally ; the latter have been used as a rubefacient." (Compare Tamus Cre- 

 tica, dioecious but unknown in Italy). 



"766 B. C." (argum. Chi-King i. 11. 3), war declared by Sian-kong, first king of Tsin, against 

 the barbarians on the Western frontier, f 



" 764 B. C." (Pausan., Euseb., and Clint), Polychares of Messenia declared the Fourth Olympic 

 victor. — The injuries received by him twenty years later were the immediate cause of the First 

 Messenian war. 



* Artemisia moxa of China. About two feet high, hoary, branching, and shrubby, the proper 

 moxa -weed (Lindl.), and probably the " armoise " in question : — A. moxa was received by Besser. 

 abr. 3 from China; is described also by Decandolle prod. vi. 121. Moxa according to Lindley is 

 procured " from many other plants," and serves as a convenient mode of applying the actual cautery. 



f P rutins Kaempferi of Eastern Asia. The sour plum : the " mcei " tree growing according to 

 an ode of this period on mount Tchong-nan — (Chi-King i. 11. 5) is referred by Lacharme to a kind 

 of plum with fruit altogether acid. A Prunus apparently differing from P. domestica was observed 

 by Bunge under cultivation in China (A. Dec.) ; and the " malus persica" seen by Kaempfer, and 

 Thunberg, in Japan, may also be compared. 



