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6. B Hydroctylifolia. — A beautiful, low-growing plant with 

 cochleate entire humifuse leaves, round cordate, and variously 

 tinged from dark-green to red and purple ; small pink flowers, in 

 long upright peduncles. That this beautiful Begonia belongs to 

 the American Continent we believe there is little doubt, though it 

 is said to have been found in Malabar. 



LXXVI.— BERBERIDE^, Juss. Gen. 286. 



THE BARBERRY TRIBE. 



BERBERIS, Hexandria Monogynia. Barberry, Linn. Gen. 

 No. 442. Of these we may state that — 



1. B Aristata and Asiatica are to be found in the Botanical 

 Gardens reared chiefly from Seharunpore seed, but they can 

 hardly be considered as established trees, seeing that their growth is 

 slow and stunted, and probably will never flower. The Barberry 

 in its wild state is, we believe, found on the hills north and east of 

 Aboo, beyond Danteewarra ; but as no specimens have reached 

 us, we leave the subject open for future inquirers. The power of 

 the bark in the cure of fever is said to be considerable. 



LXXVII.— POLYGONE^, Sweet. Hort. Brit, p 341. 



THE BUCK-WHEAT TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst. p 169. 



1 . Polygonum Tartaricum — Buck Wheat ; native of Northern 

 Asia ; is occasionally seen as a cultivated product in 'the Deccan, 

 the grain being eaten toasted as a fast-day food by the Hindoos. 

 The broad cordate leaves, and the upright head of handsome white 

 flowers, render it very conspicuous in a field. It is believed that 

 the cultivation of this grain has originated long anterior to the 

 settlement of Europeans in India. 



LXXVIIL— LAURINEiE, Sweet. Hort. Brit, p 344. 



1. CiNNAMOMUM Aromaticum, Nees in Wall. PL As. rar. p 74 ; 

 Wight Ic. /. 139. — The Ceylon Cinnamon tree, at once recog- 

 nised by its refgular 3-nerved coriaceous shining leaves, and the 

 terminal panicles of flowers, the leaves exhaling the peculiar and 

 pleasant cinnamon odour when bruised. The fruit does not ripen 

 in the specimens which we have seen at Bombay and Tanna. In 

 gardens Bombay, Parell, &c. The best S|)ecimen we have seen is 

 a tree in a compound in Tanna, just north of the Adawlut. 



