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an effectual cure (Lindl.) ; is known to grow also on Timor (Decsne) and as far as Java (Hassk.,and 

 A. Dec). Eastward, was observed in the West Indies by Plumier, Browne, Jacquin amer. 245 and 

 Descourtilz, but no Carib name is given, and from what is above stated, may have been carried there 

 by Polynesians. From transported specimens, is described by Plukenet aim. pi. 208. The juice of 

 the leaves according to Lindley "is a powerful depilatory," destroying "hair wherever it is applied, 

 without pain." 



"944 A. D." (art de verif.), Motaki deposed; and the accession of Mostakfi, twenty-second 



Abbassid khalif. 



" Dec. 20th " (Sm. b. d.), at Constantinople, the throne recovered from his usurping guardian and 

 colleague Romanus Lecapinus by Constantinus VII. I'orphyrogenitus. By whose direction, Theo- 

 phanes Nonnus compiled his medical compendium. 



The earliest notice of distilled rose-water poAOCTarmaTOC is by Theophanes Nonnus 97 

 • — (Spreng., and Sm. b. d.). 



"945 A. D." A Coptic inscription dated in the "six hundred and sixty-second year of the Dio- 

 cletian era, and three hundred and thirty-fourth of the Hejra" (the two reckonings agreeing with each 

 other and with the above year) —is mentioned by Champollion-Figeac eg. anc. p. 228. 



" In this year (= 2d of the khai-yun," geogr. Chin, transl. Klapr. p. 35), Kian succeeded by his 

 son Wou, now king of Corea. 



"In this year (= 8th year of the ' ten-kei ' of Zu-siak," ann. Jap. transl. Tits.), Fousiwara-no 

 Naka fira dying, received the posthumous title of Biwa-no Sadaisin.* 



"946 A. D." (Alst., and Nicol.), at Rome, Martinus II. succeeded by Agapetus II., sixty-fifth 

 archbishop. 



" May 26th " (Nicol.), Edmund succeeded by Edred, tenth Anglo-Saxon king of England. 



"The same year" (art de verif.), Mostakfi deposed, and the accession of Mothi, twenty-third 

 Abbassid khalif. A coin issued by Mothi, is figured in Marcel p. 94. 



Mothi was acknowledged by the eunuch Kafur, who governed Egypt in the name of the children 

 of Ikhschid— (Marcel p. 97). 



"947 A. D. = 1 2th year of the ' tching-tsin-thian-fou ' of Kao-tsou IV.," now head of the new 

 dynasty of the later Han — (Chinese chron. table). 



" The same year " (ann. Jap., and art de verif.), Siusaki succeeded by his brother Murakami, four- 

 teenth son of Dai-go, and now sixty-second dairo of Japan. 



Greek manuscripts of about this date (Sylvestre) presenting the following forms of letters, S, y, A, 

 fl, o-, v. 



Under Constantinus VII. Porphyrogenitus (....), the Geoponica, Greek agricultural writings, 

 collected by Cassianus Bassus. 



Finns cembra of Europe and Northern Asia. Its cones called in France " ceinbrots," in Italy 

 "zermi," in Germany "zirbelnusse," and the orpofiiXov of the Geoponica xi. 1. 11 — is referred here by 

 Sprengel : P. cembra is described also by Avicenna 179 (Spreng.), and is known to grow on the moun- 

 tains of Switzerland (Lam. fl. fr., and Pers.). Eastward, is known to be frequent throughout North- 

 ern Asia as far as the Kurile Islands (Endl., and A. Dec). Is "said to yield Carpathian balsam" 

 (Lindl.). 



"948 A. D. = 'kien-you,' 1st year of Yn-ti, of the later Han " or Nineteenth dynasty — (Chinese 

 chron. table). 



"The same year (= 337 A. H. comm. July 10th," Gildem. p. 54), date of an Arabic sepulchral 

 inscription in the city of Colombo in Ceylon (trans. Asiat. i. 540). 



The same year = " 5th year of Mostakfi," in an inscription at the gold mines of Gebel Ellaka in 

 the Ababdeh Desert. The earliest inscription in the current Arabic letters hitherto discovered (Wilk. 

 theb. and eg. p. 416 and 545). 



About this time ("909 to 951 " Krapf trav.), Mukdishu on the coast of East Africa founded by 

 Arabs. 



" 950 A. D." (Munk), the pilgrimage to Mecca again opened. 



* Eriobotrya Japonica of Japan. The first part of the above title is derived from this tree — ■ 

 (Klapr.), called "biwa" to the present day : E. Japonica was seen in Japan by Kaempfer v. p. 800 ; 

 and is described by Thunberg as large and lofty, bearing esculent fruit. Westward, was observed by 

 Loureiro in China or Cochinchina. But by European colonists may have been carried to Burmah, 

 where it is enumerated by Mason as "exotic" and called loquat; and to Hindustan, where it was ob- 

 served by Roxburgh, and Graham in gardens, and called loquat or ivhampee. Clearly by European 

 colonists, carried to the Mauritius Islands, where it is cultivated in elevated situations, and called 

 " bibassier" (Boj.) ; to Europe, in the days of Plukenet aim. pi. 371 ; and to Northeast America, where 

 it has become frequent in greenhouses. 



