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■jiaguf (Afiaf ReFearcb. vi,-, .p. ,360„. A' herpeiicust Mfs. Guil. 

 Hoxb.) of which with his uTual liberality i have been favored 

 with the original drawing, is exceedingly like my tree. It differs 

 however beiides having a berry while the pericarp of mine is de- 

 cidedly a capfuie, in its leaves wanting the coloured rib, and the 

 racemes being much fhorter. Indeed if 1 could fupppfe the at- 

 tribute of a Berry to have httn founded on a flight miftake m 

 the examination of the , unripe feed veffdj I would venture to 

 confider them as one and the fame plants 



Since writing the above my cfteeraed friend Br. GovaNj Su- 

 perintendent of the Botanic Garden at Saharunpore has favored me 

 with the following obfervations on this intercfting tree and with 

 fpecimens, which he gathered on the confines oi C^dnefs Tarta-y, 



** Your Andromedj oval/folia occurs fird on the hills between 

 Njhn diudi Subhatoo at an elevation (by Barometer) of about .goGo 

 feet, and continu.es to that ol 8000 feet^^ftcr, which it becomes 

 very rare and .f^p.u. <^ii~appears entirely. It is called by the fame 

 name as the fpecies of Sirwao^ur,- Aiaan. ox Airee and grows to 

 a tree of 20 to 40 feet in height; the bark of the (lem and older 

 branches much cracked and rough, that of the former almoPc 

 Juberose, The raididle rib of the leaf is coloured, fometimes ,<&2i- 

 niceous ; by drying both that and the nerves become ferrugineous. 

 With reg^ard toit«;ufe the fame opinion prevails here z.s in Sirina' 

 gur, an infufion of the bruifed leaves "in water being confidered 

 a fpecific againlt cutaneous complaints of an herpetic nature boih 

 in the human, fpecies and in catde ; its operation is faid to be at« 

 tended with confiderable pain. Sheep and Goats cat the leaves 

 which, when young, are faid to produce fopoiific and deleterious 

 effects on them * When uled as litter they are faid to deftroy 

 infeds in the ftalls of the cattle. Excellent timber is fo' plentiful 

 where this tree is found that its wood is only ufed for burning/' 



■* Mr. Geiduei iuforms oie tLei u siuiijr uolt«u |)iei«ils iu iSa^i&U 



