as a supposed product of that region."

"The word _sappan_ is not connected with Japan. The earliest records of
this word are found in Chinese sources. _Su-fang su-pwan_, to be restored
to _'supang_ or _'spang_, _'sbang_; _Caesalpinia sappan_, furnishing the
sappan wood, is first described as a product of Kiu-chen (Tong King) in
the _Nan fang ts'ao mi chuang_, written by Ki Han at the end of the third
or beginning of the fourth century. J. de Loureiro (_Flora
cochinchinensis_, p. 321) observes in regard to this tree, 'Habitat in
altis montibus Cochinchinae: indeque a mercatoribus sinensibus abunde
exportatur.' The tree accordingly is indigenous to Indo-China, where the
Chinese first made its acquaintance. The Chinese transcription is surely
based on a native term then current in Indo-China, and agrees very well
with Khmer _sban_ (or _sbang_): see AYMONIER et CABATON, _Dict.
cam-francais_, 510, who give further Cam _hapan_, Batak _sopan_, Makassar
_sappan_, and Malay _sepan_. The word belongs to those which the Mon-Khmer
and Malayan languages have anciently in common." (Note of Dr. B. LAUFER.)

XXIV., p. 386, also pp. 391, 440.

FANDARAINA.

Prof. E.H. PARKER writes in the _Journal of the North-China Branch of the
Royal Asiatic Soc._, XXXVII., 1906, p. 196: "Regarding the Fandaraina
country of the Arabs mentioned by Yule in the Notes to pages 386, 391, and
440 of Vol. II., it may be interesting to cite the following important
extract from Chapter 94, page 29, of the _Yuaen Shi_:--'In 1295 sea-traders
were forbidden to take fine values to trade with the three foreign states
of Ma-pa-r; Pei nan, and Fan-ta-la-i-na, but 2,500,000 nominal taels in
paper money were set apart for the purpose.'"

XXV., p. 391.

In the _Yuen Shi_, ch. 94, fol. 11 r'o, the "three barbarian kingdoms of
_Ma-pa-eul_ (Ma'abar), _Pei-nan_ (corr. _Kiu-nam, Coilam_) and
_Fan-ta-la-yi-na_" are mentioned. No doubt the last kingdom refers to the
_Fandaraina_ of Ibn Batuta, and Prof. Pelliot, who gives me this
information, believes it is also, in the middle of the fourteenth century,
_Pan-ta-li_ of the _Tao yi chi lio_.

GOZURAT.

XXV., p. 393. "In this province of Gozurat there grows much pepper, and
ginger, and indigo. They have also a great deal of cotton. Their cotton
trees are of very great size, growing full six paces high, and attaining
to an age of 20 years."

Chau Ju-kwa has, p. 92: "The native products comprise great quantities of
indig