102 
Selectmis. 
[no. 3, NEW SERIES, 
I wish I could add to this very favorable change in the state of 
the AnnamuUays, that it was no longer the resort of smugglers, but 
unfortunately the Native States of Travancore and Cochin have not 
yet followed the liberal policy of the British Government in sacri- 
ficing the profits of the Tobacco Monopoly to the moral well-being 
of the people. c 
SELECTIONS. 
Neio Cinghalese Plants, 
No I. 
We now proceed to avail ourselves of the permission accorded 
to us by Mr. Thwaites* to republish the new Plants discovered by 
him, in the Island of Ceylon and contributed to the Kew Miscellany. 
The two following plants occur in Vol. IV. page 1, of that valu- 
able and interesting publication. 
The first of the two is a new species of an already established 
genus. Epicarpurus, one of the group of Batie^ which after hav- 
ing been included among the Euphoebiace^ has now been rightly 
transferred to the natural family of Urticace^. The Batieje are 
well represented in Southern India by JBaiis spinosa of Roxburgh, 
common in the N. Circars under the name of Gorati or Koriii ; 
Epicarpurus orientalis {TropjJiis spinosa Roxb.) Telugu name, /SiVa- 
nica ; and Trophis aspera frequent in all parts of the Carnatic, in 
Telugu Barinika, in Tamil Pirat/a. To the same group also belong 
the celebrated cow tree of the Caraceas, Galactodendron utile or Palo 
de Vaca of Humboldt and the Jamaica bread-nut tree, Brosimum 
Alicastrunif Sw. 
The Indian congeners also abound in a milky juice but it does not 
seem to be turned to any economical purpose, except in the case 
of Tropins as f era, the juice of which is sometimes mixed with cow's 
milk and heated to cause it to curdle. Its leaves are emplo5'ed as 
a polishing agent by workers in ivory. W. E. 
* Journal Vol I. p. 283-4, Troceedings of March 12, 1857. 
