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I suspect that Graham's plant was also A. pallens. Finally, 
might point out that the name * downa" occurs in Ainslie's 
Mat. Med. of Hindoost. (1813), 44, 161, as the Dekkani name of an 
Artemisia which is ** one of the many sweet smelling shrubs that 
are strewed before the Hindoo gods at religious ceremonies,’ ' and 
“an offering at the shrines of Sheva and Vishnoo.” He refers it 
to A. austriaca, L., a synonym of which is A. or ee Willd., 
the name Wallich found attached to the specimens of A. pallens 
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A. pallens; but they attribute the word downa to A. indica 
(A. vulgaris, L., according to FI. Brit. Ind., iii., 325), a plant 
which Ainslie enumerates also, y under different vernacular 
names. Other vernacular names of the plant are: “ maritolundoo " 
(Tamil) and * dawanum ” (Teling an according to Ainslie, l.c., and 
“dawana-kaha” (Sanskrit) pata a to Piddington (Engl. "Ind. 
Pl. Ind. s.). 
O. STAPF. 
Annals of the Royal Botanic Tarin caran” —The eighth volume 
of this work has just reached this country. It is entirely devoted 
to the description and illustration “of the orchids of the Sikkim- 
Himalaya, by Sir George King, late Superintendent of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, and Robert Pantling, Deputy-Superin- 
tendent of the Cinchona plantations at Mungpoo o. Each succeeding 
volume of the Annals exceeds its predecessor in size, and the 
t is not easy to convey an idea of the immense amount 
of | abou put T this addition to orchid literature, and much of 
it was done under great difficulties. The drawings were all 
executed by Mr. Pantling, and, with v mr z eed pee from 
living plants. uci — not merely repres of the plants ; 
they also contain reat amount of boarda detail that could 
only be satisfactorily er rr rom living plants. he 
drawings, we are infor1 in the preface, were all lithographed 
by natives of Bengal, eiiaoe at the Government School of Art 
in Calcutta. And the colouring was done, under Mr. Pantling’s 
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of their gigantic undertaking ; and the liberality of the Govern- 
ment of Bengal in defieyi ing the cost of its publication cannot be 
