from the Kingdom of Nepal. 405 



whose late residence, Leny, near Callander, must be familiar to 

 many of our explorers of the romantic scenery of the Trosachs. 

 Dr. Hamilton was, I believe, the first to investigate the botany 

 of Nepal and the adjacent countries, in which he has been 

 zealously succeeded by Wallich, Griffith, and Hooker. I have 

 not myself had the good fortune to visit these regions, and poli- 

 tical jealousy has almost sealed Nepal, especially its alpine tracts, 

 to us ; but I have traversed its western frontier, and was for 

 several years associated with its military tribes in the service of 

 the East India Company, and have thus been enabled to acquire 

 the popular names of several of the plants in question. I shall 

 not altogether limit myself to those occurring in the ' Account of 

 Nepal,^ but shall extend my remarks also to a few of those enu- 

 merated in the Catalogue, with respect to which there is reason 

 to think any additional information will be acceptable, or any 

 errors remain to be rectified. Many points must continue un- 

 determined, and will furnish a field of inquiry to future botanists. 

 Dr. Royle has been the most successful investigator of the 

 various sources of the many articles of the Indian Materia Me- 

 dica, in his valuable ' Illustrations of the Botany of the Hima- 

 layan Mountains^ ; but the origin of many of those contained 

 in his list, published in the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of 

 BengaP for October 1832, is still to be made out. With refer- 

 ence to the object before us, the most advantageous plan, per- 

 haps, will be to quote the several passages from Dr. Hamilton's 

 work as they occur, with some regard to the natural sequence 

 of the orders as understood by Dr. Lindley ; appending such 

 notices as may be supplied by the Catalogue, and concluding 

 with my own comments. 



As Dr. Hamilton always makes use in his Catalogue of the 

 classical names for the various provinces, it may be well to pre- 

 mise that 



Magadha is the modern Behar. 



Mithila „ Zirhut. 



Cosala „ Oude and Gorakhpur. 



Camroop „ Bangpur and Assam. 



Angga „ North-western Bengal. 



Banga „ Western and Southern Bengal. 



Matsya „ the district of Dinajpur. 



of Pad^ra. Dr. Hamilton himself remarks thus on the specific name at 

 No. 694 of the Catalogue :— 



" Hamiltoma suaveolens. Habitat in sylvis Anggae et Mithilae. 



*' Nomen specificum hand aptum, cum flores, licet aliquando suaveo- 

 lentes, saepius, ut in Pcederia et Serissa affinibus, odorem stercoraceum 

 gravissimura spirant, quod in caeteris ejusdem generis speciebus quoque 

 evenit." 



