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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 29. ] ; MAY. [1889. 
XCII.—PERSIAN ZALIL. 
(Delphinium Zalil, Aitchison and Hemsley.) 
With Plate. 
The following interesting account of the Persian dye plant aa has 
been prepared by Sir d Hooker for the April number [tab. 7049] 
of the Botanical Magazine. The plant was first described [ Transactions 
Li d 
. 2, vol. iii, p. 80. 
the Botany of the Afghan Delimitation Commission, 
worked up at Kew from the remarkable collections made by Surgeon- 
Major jam C.I.E., F.R.S., when on duty as naturalist attached 
to the mission. 
The Zalil flowered at Kew in July of last year, and specimens of the 
flowers as used for dyeing purposes and for medicine are in the Museums 
Co. a reproduction of the drawing of the plant is included here with the 
A — 
* As a plant of economie value this is one of the most interesting 
discoveries ry in Afghan Delimitation Commission, and our knowledge 
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