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Diofcorides. An Papaver corniculaturn floribuS 
c^eruleis ? 
Concerning the Ifoidrowia, I have been able to 
get no intelligence. The Orichalcum is called here 
or (* Dgaam or Tuck). 
The paper made of filk huflcs is not to be found 
at prefent in the city. If any can be procured from 
the BafTora caravan lately arrived, it fhall be fent. 
c Tranfation of a Paper in Arabic, fent to W— — - 
C , Efquire t from Aleppo, with feveral 
Specimens of Tebafhir. 
AS 
with a ^ Tebafhir. 
In the Camus (* an Arabic Lexicon, which the 
celebrated Golius tranflated into Latin), Tebafhir is 
faid to be a fubftance found in the hollow of that 
fpecies of Indian cane of which lances are made : 
or the lower part of that cane burnt. The Tebafhir 
which is formed at the knots of the cane is round 
like a dirhem (* ducat). This fubftance is found in 
the cavity of thofe canes which have been fired by 
rubbing one againft another. It is frequently adul- 
terated: the burnt bones of fheep, the fkulls parti- 
cularly, are fold for it. - 
Ebn Beitar, in his treatife of fimples, fays, “ Te- 
“ bafhir is a fubftance found in the hollow of the 
“ Indian cane.” 
Ali Ebn Mohammed fays, “ It is the burnt part 
“ of the lower ftem of the Indian cane ; and is 
“ imported only from the coaft of India; chiefly 
“ from that part of the coaft called Sendapour 
“ (* or 
