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or Royal Salop. 
due to its more advanced stage of growth. But in both the 
alliaceous odour was certainly localised to the growing axis 
and young leaves. Whereas the bulbs of A. stipiiatum and 
A. Suworowi , whilst still entire, gave forth a powerfully alli- 
aceous odour, greatly intensified upon section. 
In all probability the bulbs of more than one species of 
Allium are collected as Badsha-Salep. The size of these dried 
bulbs varies very greatly ; this difference in size can, I think, 
be better accounted for by difference of species than by simple 
individual variation, when the product is, as in this instance, 
not that of a cultivated plant. 
In the Museum at Kew there is a large specimen of a 
dried bulb called ‘ Giant Salep ’ from Bombay, presented by 
Mr. R. G. Clements, of which a smaller specimen is repre- 
sented in Fig. 3. Another, presented by Major Hobson, 
from the East Indies, native name c Amber-kund/ with the 
note 6 Considered by the natives a valuable medicine in cases 
of consumption 5 (Fig. 1). Also a collection of smaller bulbs, 
of which a type specimen is given in Fig. 2, from the Indian 
Museum collection 1 . The last are highly alliaceous in odour, 
which at once apparently led to their identification, the others 
are all without odour. 
Microscopic preparations are easily made from the Badsha- 
Salep by soaking in water. These exhibit a structure similar 
to that seen in species of Allium , and almost identical with 
sections made from the bulb of Allium Macleanii ; the only 
difference being that the utricular vessels seen in the sections 
made from Badsha-Salep are densely packed with a yellowish 
granular substance of which there is little, though some, to be 
seen in the utricular vessels of the fresh bulb. Its smaller amount 
in the latter is to be accounted for thus : upon having made 
sections (not microscopic) of the fresh bulb they were at once 
placed in rectified spirits. No sooner was this done, than the 
spirit seemed to extract the contents of the fresh bulb, as a 
continuous stream of the most exquisite opalescent rose-colour. 
1 Labelled, No. 21. Materia Medica, No. 5 in Pharmacopoeia of India. 
Punjabee ‘ Piaz.’ Allium Species, N.W.I. Prov. No. 3737. 
