s equalised on all kinds to 41/2d.
per lb.

The imports and home consumption of arrowroot have increased very
largely, as may be seen from the following figures:--

Retained for home
Imports consumption
lbs. lbs.
1826 318,830 358,007
1830 449,723 516,587
1834 837,811 735,190
1835 287,966 895,406
1838 404,738 434,574
1839 303,489 224,792
1840 408,469 330,490
1841 -- 454,893
1842 890,736 846,832
1846 905,072 981,120
1847 1,185,968 1,211,168
1848 906,304 933,744
1849 1,036,185 1,032,992
1850 1,789,774 1,414,669
1851 2,083,681 1,848,778
1852 2,139,390 2,024,316

SALEP is the prepared and dried roots of several orchideous plants,
and is sometimes sold in the state of powder. Indigenous salep is
procured, according to Dr. Perceval from _Orchis mascula_, _O.
latifolia_, _O. morio_, and other native plants of this order. On the
continent it is obtained from _O. papilionaceo_, and _militaris_.
Oriental salep is procured from other orchideoe. Professor Royle states
that the salep of Kashmir is obtained from a species of Eulophia,
probably _E. virens_. Salep is also obtained from the tuberous roots
of _Tacca pinnatifida_, and other species of the same genus, which are
principally natives of the East Indies and the South Sea Islands.

The large fleshy tubers of tacca, when scraped and frequently washed,
yield a nutritious fecula resembling arrowroot.

Salep consists chiefly of bassorin, some soluble gum, and a little
starch. It forms an article of diet fitted for convalescents when
boiled with water or milk. The price of salep is about eight guineas
per cwt. in the London market. A little is exported from
Constantinople, as I noticed a shipment of 66 casks in 1842; excellent
specimens from this quarter were shown in the Egyptian department of
the Great Exhibition in 1851. It was formerly a great deal used, but
has latterly been much superseded by other articles.

Major D. Williams ("Journal of the Agri. and Hort. Soc. of India,"
vol. iv., part I), states that the tacca plant abounds in certain
parts of the province of Arracan, where the Mugs prepare the farina
for export to the