PENGHAWAR  DJAMBI,  A  NEW  STYPTIC. 
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dens ;  it  was  not,  however,  till  1840,  that  it  produced  fructification, 
which  it  did  in  the  Birmingham  Botanic  Gardens,  a  notice  of  which  is 
recorded  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Linnean  Society  for  February,  1840. 
I  then  identified  it  as  belonging  to  the  genus  Cibotium  of  Kaulfuss, 
and  in  my  Genera  Filicum,  published  in  1841,  I  recorded  it  under  the 
name  of  Cibotium  Barometz. 
u  In  the  Berlin  garden  it  received  the  name  of  C.  glaacopJiyllum, 
afterwards  changed  to  0,  glaucescens  by  Kunze,  who  figured  it  in 
Schukhr's  Supplement,  p.  63,  t.  31.  Since  then  (1846)  dried  speci- 
mens collected  by  Fortune  and  by  Seemann,  and  corresponding  with  the 
living  plant,  have  been  received  from  China. 
"Now  for  the  name  Cibotium  Cumingii. — In  1840,  Cuming  brought 
specimens  of  a  Cibotium  from  the  Philippines,  which  in  my  enumera- 
tion of  the  ferns  of  those  islands  I  named  Cibotium  glaucum*  then 
believing  it  to  be  the  Dicksonia  glauca  of  Dr.  J.  E.  Smith  (Rees's 
Cyclop.,  vol.  xi).  Kunze,  however,  considered  it  a  distinct  species  and 
named  it  C.  Cumingii. 
"  After  much  examination  of  well  authenticated  specimens,  I  have 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  C.  Barometz  J.  Sm.,  C.  glaucescens  Kunze, 
C.  Cumingii  Kunze  and  C.  Assimicum  Hook.,  constitute  one  species 
only.  I  therefore  retain  the  original  historical  name  of  C.  Barometz, 
for  the  eastern  type  of  the  genus. 
"  It  appears  that  the  stipes  called  Penghavjar  Djambi  comes  from 
Sumatra.  Although  I  have  not  seen  any  fronds  of  Cibotium  from  that 
locality,  still,  judging  from  the  stipes  in  question,  I  see  no  reason  to 
doubt  the  correctness  of  referring  it  to  Cibotium  Cumingii,  which  as 
above  stated,  I  regard  as  not  different  from  C.  Barometz.,} 
The  authors  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  Neerlandica  quote  Agnus 
Scythieus  as  synonymous  with  the  Sumatran  Penghawar  Djambi, 
in  which  it  is  evident  Mr.  John  Smith  thinks  them  correct. 
They  do  not,  however,  attempt  to  fix  the  botanical  origin 
of  the  drug,  but  merely  refer  it  to  "  Filicis  species  nondum  satis 
cognita." 
Professor  Miquel,  on  the  other  hand,  while  referring  Peng- 
hawar  to  (7.  Qumingii  Kunze  questions  its  identity  with  Agnus 
Scythieus  in  these  words : — "  Agnus  Scythieus  seu  Barometz 
pharm.,  filicis  etiam  caudex  est  sed  ab  eo  Cibotorum  diversus."f 
Having  examined  an  ancient  specimen  of  the  so-called  Scythian 
Lamb  preserved  in  the  British  Museum,!  as  well  as  a  living 
*  Journ.  of  Bot„  vol.  iii.  (1841),  p.  418. 
t  Analecta  Botanica  Indica,  ii.,  36. 
$  Probably  the  same  specimen  as  is  excellently  figured  in  Bymsdyk's 
Museum  Britannicum,  London,  1791,  fol.  Tab.  xv.,  fig.  2. 
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