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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 33.] SEPTEMBER. [1889. 
CVI.—FLOWERS OF CALLIGONUM AS AN ARTICLE 
OF F00D IN N.W. INDIA. 
The transfer to the Royal Gardens in 1879 of the economico-botanical 
enses formerly forming part of the India Museum at South Ken- 
ingto v reed upon Kew the duty of maintaining on exhibition a 
Bomb 
a and Panicum flavidum, December 1887; Coix gigantea, 
Nona 1888 
The use of flowers as an article of food is somewhat uncommon. 
Mere fugitive structures for the most part, their transitory purpose 
precludes the plant wasting upon them any of its carefully economised 
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