Odorographia : a natural history of raw materials and drugs used in the perfume industry : intended to serve growers, manufacturers and consumers . WallicMi D. C,is a distinct species from V. HardwicUi of Wallich and DonJ(Wallichs post-scriptum observation to this last description byEoxburgh is worded thus :— The flowers and seeds seem like thoseof F. Jatamansi, but in regard to the root and leaves the twoplants differ widely. It is also to be remarked that Don aversthe V. HarchuicUi to be the plant described and figured by SirWilliam Jones as spikenard in the Asiatic Eesearches, ii., p. 403,?
Odorographia : a natural history of raw materials and drugs used in the perfume industry : intended to serve growers, manufacturers and consumers . WallicMi D. C,is a distinct species from V. HardwicUi of Wallich and DonJ(Wallichs post-scriptum observation to this last description byEoxburgh is worded thus :— The flowers and seeds seem like thoseof F. Jatamansi, but in regard to the root and leaves the twoplants differ widely. It is also to be remarked that Don aversthe V. HarchuicUi to be the plant described and figured by SirWilliam Jones as spikenard in the Asiatic Eesearches, ii., p. 403,?which description and figure is above accounted for as pertaining * Dymock, Pharmacographia Indica, ii,, p. 237. t It is presumed they mean the aqueous portion of the distillate. X Hardw. in As. Ees. vi., p. S50, with a figure; Don. Prodr. FI. Nep.,p. 159 ; Wall. PI. As. Ear., iii, t. 263 ; Eoxb. PI. Ind. i., p. 166. SPIKEXAED AXD YALERIAX. 271 to V. Wallicliii ; yet De Candolle expressed the opinion thatthe two plants were of distinct species* ; but Lindley (Flor. Med.,472) in speaking of De Candolles opinion expressed about another. Valeriana Wallichii. Reduced from Plate iv. in De Candollei Memoir here quoted. species (V. Dioscoridis) says, . not personally acquainted with the subject. * D. C, Mem., Val., p. 16. the learned botanist was 272 ODOROCxRAPHIA. The figures given by Koyle (Illust. Bot. Himal., t. 54) ofNardostachys Jatamansi are reproduced in Figure annexed. Com-paring them with De Candolles representation of that plant (D. Yaler), on preceding page, a striking difference is apparent;
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