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mum ; their usual price there being about a pice each ; the wool 

 produced is manufactured into cumbuls, which are also exported. The 

 demand for hides, for agricultural purposes, in the Circar is quite equal 

 to the supply. 



The Mylahris Cichorei, possessing blistering powers superior to 

 those of the Spanish tly imported from Europe, is abundant through- 

 out the granitic country, from the middle of June till December, and 

 may be gathered for about a rupee a pound. 



Vegetable productions. — The Sanseviera Zeylanica^ the Ishnia Co- 

 danar of the Telingas, and the bowstring hemp of Roxburgh, is a very 

 abundant production, both in the Worungul and the Khummum Cir- 

 cars. Its useful properties are unknown to the natives, who turn it to 

 no account. Dr. Roxburgh proposed the cultivation of this plant for 

 the hemp which it affords, and the strength and tenacity of its fibres, 

 rivalling, which if not excelling, those of its congener and closest ally, 

 the Phormium Tenax, (New Zealand flax,) render it remarkable that his 

 proposal should never have been, as far as I am aware, adopted. It is 

 probable, however, that the proneness to nip and rot, when exposed to 

 moisture, is common to the fibres of all monocotyledonous plants; should 

 such be the case, we must prefer seeking for hemp plants in the exo- 

 genous class. In addition to the medicinal plants mentioned in the 

 former report, I may here add the Cucumis Colocynthis, the true 

 Colocynth, the Asclepias Asthmatica, the country Ipecachuana, the Ipo- 

 mea Ccerulea, the seeds of which have been proposed by Dr. O'Shaugh- 

 nessy as a substitute for Jalap, — all common plants, and also the Ccesal- 

 pinia Bonduca, Gentiana Verticillata, and some other medicinal plants 

 less known and appreciated, — as several species of Euphorbice and 

 Asclepias, the Aschynomene grandijlora, Pavetta Indica, &c. 



Manufactures, (3rc.— Calico printing is practised at Khummum ; but 

 it would appear to be a feeble off-set from the art pursued at Mada- 

 pollam and Masulipatam, from whence the printers have originally 

 come. The printing is confined to two colours, black and red ; the for- 

 mer obtained from a mixture of gum, myrobolan, and sulphate of iron ; 

 the latter from the root of the Morinda Citrifolia. The printing blocks, 

 composed of teak-wood, are procured from Masulipatam, and there is 

 little variety or beauty in the patterns ; the cloths printed are usually 

 coarse surrhees and handkerchiefs. Hand-fans from the leaf of the 



