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* Gulran it was of great abundance, and when in blossom gave 
* wondrous golden hue to the pastures. In PUT localities i in Khorasan 
* above 3,000 feet it is equally comm on e flowers m. fimi 
r Pa of Gentiana Olen which. is, as Boissier noted, a hot c se tes 
* Gentian. This is followed by Delphinum Zalil, a perennial, which 
* throws up a spike of bright yellow di two feet in height. Its 
“The fact of D. Zalil Mom a dye stuff is one dose 
evidences of our ignorance of the materials used in the industrial arts 
of the eie It is reasonable to suppose that the flowers have been an 
re by Boissier (vol. i, p. 89) to a form of the polymorphous 
. hybridum, whic white, blue, and scarlet flowers; but 
species belongs to the division with a dilated base of the petiole, 
with the lower petals ing or exceeding the sepals, and 
with other discordant characters ; yet I know no nearer affinity.— 
J. D. Hooker 
To 1 and 2, petals ; Fig. 3, carpels ; all enlarged, 
XCIII.— TASMANIAN WOODS. 
The Colony of Tasmania was not rioen at the Colonial and 
sons or held in London in 1886, and hence there is no 
e of its products in the Reports prepared for the Royal 
Gane ssion, 
It was felt that as regards the timbers of Tasmania, as well as its 
numerous other natural products, this was a distinct loss to the Colony. 
Recently an effort was made to send to this country pod submit toa 
practical test the a promising of Tasmanian woods on the sam 
. lines as the tests applied to the woods shown at the Colonial -— 
Indian Exhibition. These tests were undertaken Mr. Allen 
Ransome of Che i 
who 
has been kindly communicated to Kew by the courtesy of Mr. E. N. C. 
Braddon, Agent-General for Ta MN for : PU in the Bulletin 
