OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 519 



Salicornia brachiala of the seashore of Eastern Hindustan. Called in Telinga " quoiloo " (Drur.) ; 

 and its ashes possibly included in the " ala inthikon " of Archigenes : — S. brachiata was observed by 

 Roxburgh, and Wight pi. 738, abounding in ground overflowed by the spring-tides from Coromandel 

 to the mouths of the Ganges, and according to Drury "yields a barilla for soap and glass." 



Salsola Indica of the seashore of Hindustan. A species of saltwort called in Telinga "yella- 

 kura " (Drur.) ; and its ashes possibly included in the " ala inthikon '' of Archigenes : — S. Indica was 

 observed by Graham "in salt marshes" in the environs of Bombay, its leaves eaten by the natives ; 

 by Roxburgh, and Wight pi. 1797, along the coast as far as Coromandel and the mouths of the Ganges ; 

 and according to Irvine, and Drury, yields the impure soda called "kharsuji," imported from Scinde 

 and employed in the manufacture of soap and glass; the name "k'har" or "k'hari,"in Bengalee 

 "khyar," in Hindustanee "khar," is regarded by Royle antiq. 41 as the probable origin of the term 

 "alkali." 



Salsola nudiflora of the seashore of Hindustan. Called in Telinga "rawa-kada" (Drur.) ; and 

 its ashes possibly included in the "ala inthikon" of Archigenes: — S. nudiflora was observed by 

 Graham in salt marshes in the environs of Bombay; by Roxburgh, and Drury, from Travancore to 

 Coromandel and the mouths of the Ganges, yielding " a kind of barilla used for making soap and 

 glass." 



"99 A. D.'' (Abyss, chron., and C. Mull, geogr. min. p. xcvii), Za-Demahe' succeeded by Za- 

 Awtet, now king of Abyssinia. — He reigned " two " years. 



One hundred and thirty-second generation. A. D. 101, Jan. 1st, mostly beyond youth : the phil- 

 osophers, Valerius Pollio, Epictetus, Favorinus, and Oenomaus ; the astronomer Theon of Smyrna 

 (Blair) ; the historians Philon Byblius, and Cephalion ; the grammarians, Hermippus of Berytus, and 

 Nicanor ; the rhetors, Dionysius of Miletus, and Lollianus ; other Greek writers, Aelianus Tacticus ; 

 the editors, Dioscorides the younger, and Artemidorus Capito ; the musician Dionysius : the Latin 

 writers, the satirist Juvenalis ; the historians Suetonius, and Tacitus ; and the grammarian Terentius 

 Scaurus. 



"In this year" (Abyss, chron., and C. Mull. p. xcvii) ; Za-Awtet succeeded by Za-Elawda, now 

 king of Abyssinia. — He reigned "thirty" years. 



"The same year" (Dio, and Clint.), expedition of Trajan into Dacia. 



" 103 A. D." (Dio, Vict., and Clint.), after subduing many nations beyond the Danube, peace 

 granted by Trajan to Decebalus and the Dacians. 



" 104 A. D." (Clint.), letter of Plinius Secundus x. 97 respecting the Christians of his Province 

 in Asia Minor. The reply of Trajan is also extant, and is much celebrated. 



The Andra mentioned by Pliny " in the second century " as a powerful dynasty ; — and " the name 

 of Andre Indi, on the Ganges, in the Peutengerian tables" (Elphinst. iii. 3). 



"The same year" (Mason iii. p. 42), in Burmah, destruction of the city of Prome. 



" 105 A. D." (Dio, and Clint.), by Trajan, a stone bridge built over the Danube, under the super- 

 vision of the architect Apollodorus of Damascus. 



" October " (Dio. Chron. Pasch., and Clint.), the Era of Petra and Basra. The Roman governor 

 of Syria Cornelius Palma extending his conquests over Petra the chief city of Arabia Petraea. 



Posidonius the younger about this time writing. He quotes Archigenes, and describes the 

 glandular or true plague; a disease mentioned also about this time — or a little later by Rufus Ephesius 

 (Greenhill in Sm. biog. diet.). 



Curcuma zeruntbet of Tropical Hindustan and Java. The imported product is called in Euro- 

 pean drug-shops zedoaria longa, in Persian "zerumbad" (Lindl.), in Arabic " zarnab ; " and the 

 APNABUJ of Posidonius the younger, — Aetius, and Paulus Aegineta, is referred here by Haller : 

 the "zarnab" is mentioned by Avicenna, and Ebn Baitar. Farther East, C. zerumbet is called in 

 Sanscrit " pulasha " or " gundha-moolee " or " shudgrunthhika " or " shutee " or " kurvoora " or " kur- 

 choora,"in Bengalee "shuthee" or "kuchoora," in Telinga and Hindustanee "kuchoora" (Lindl.), in 

 the environs of Bombay "sotee" or "satee" or "kutchoora" (Graham) ; is described by Rumphius 

 v. pi. 68; was observed in Hindustan by Rheede xi. pi. 7; by Roxburgh cor. iii. pi. 206, "the pow- 

 dered root" composing in part "the red stuff" called 'abeer,' thrown about during the license of the 

 Hooly ; " by Graham, " distinguished by the purple mark down the centre of the leaves," and produc- 

 ing " the real zedoaria of the " shops ; is known to grow also in Chittagong, and in the nearest portion 

 of Java (Blume, and Lindl.). 



" 106 A. D. = ' yen-ping,' 1st year of Hiao-chang-ti " or Chang-ti, of the Han or Seventh dynasty 

 (Chinese chron. table). 



" 107 A. D. = ' young-tsou,' 1st year of Hiao-ngan-ti " or Ngan-ti, of the Han or Seventh dynasty 



(Chinese chron. table). 



" The same year" (Mason ii. 20, and iii. 42), establishment of the Burman empire at Pugan : and 

 the city founded or rebuilt by king Thamugdareet. 



