most varied fortune, and has a t last be en eoim ith success m the 
Seats Settlements. s is idni that the p presented w: 
of no ordinary difficulty. The ipecacuanha plant pend very y little 
elasticity of constitution, and refuses to flourish, except under a very 
nate p of physical eno The result of experiment lini 
n to sho at it cam be propagated by extrao rdinary 
‘facility, uae by ordinary cuttings, by cuttings of the roots, or even 
. by merely pegging a leaf to the earth. 
The eed of the series of the ipecacuanha plant into India 
1 commenced with the following extracts from a letter emt 
D. Anderson, Pec ee tina of the Botanical Sardis, Calcutta 
e r Ronin ti to the Government of Bengal, dated December Sth, 
My attention had been directed to the introduction of 2 ipeca- 
uanha plant into the Botanieal Gardens of Calcutta for some years, 
* but I was unable to procure any plants until April 1866, sien one 
me by the overland route by Dr. Hooker, Director 
CI 
* on the plant by Dr. George King, Assistant Surgeon o of the Bengal 
* Medical Service, during the hastis e to India for its having arrived in 
Calcutta i in good health." 
z > plant of ipecacuanha o rm introduced into the — 
: si epe xir but I n v medias ne plants in this 
On March . 23, 1869, the tin Oe enl. t 5 Kew. requesting thot 
í plants- fs ipecacuanha, usd be. procera sa. sent with care to 
Joseph Hooker replied) Mar rth 19: ^] ean ad two. healt thy 
the disposal of his Excellency the matin in Council at 
and: I hope — be able to supply more, but the plant 
0 imported alive) is still. se uaivels rare 
ished after their arrival i 
| , 1870, Dr. Anderson, who had in dv nM to nit i6 
;Me the India fest "T The plants have thriven at 
of three. planta abide by Mr. 
These i four. reps — are abe only ones 
ve been all-others having perished 
the conn x 
tis — now to of this plant, but it is believed 
it ofa direct importation from oan dco 
