and on the Sanscrita Names of that Country. 



red with those given to the same plants by the ignorant people 

 who collect and vend drugs. 



In the following dry season 1811-12, I examined the ju- 

 risdictions subject to the magistrates of the cities of Patna and 

 Gaya, both included in the ancient kingdom of Magadha, which 

 for many centuries before the Muhammedan invasion, was consi- 

 dered the chief seat of Hindu power and glory, so that its princes 

 were indifferently called Kings of Magadha and of Bharatkanda, 

 or the Land of Virtue, the name by which the Hindus fondly call 

 the territory occupied by their race, the descendants of Brahma. 

 In these districts I had a farther opportunity of making myself 

 acquainted with the rigid vegetation of the Vindhiyan Moun- 

 tains, and, during my stay at Patna, in the rainy season 1812, I 

 extended my knowledge of the officinal plants of India, by con- 

 sulting the same physician and the druggists of Patna. 



In the dry season 181213, I examined the jurisdiction 

 under the magistrate of Shahabad, forming a great part of the 

 ancient Hindu kingdom of Kikata (Latine Cicata) ; and here I com- 

 pleted my knowledge of the vegetation of the Vindhiyan Moun- 

 tains, which, the farther west I proceeded, rose to a greater ele- 

 vation, were more rocky, and communicated to their vegetation 

 more and more of the rigid and thorny nature of that produced 

 on the arid hills and mountains of Draveda, Karnata, and Chera. 

 Soon after the rainy season of 1813 commenced, I embarked 

 at Chunar, and proceeded up the Ganges and Yamuna (Jomanes 

 PLINII) or Jumna to Agra, and thus had an opportunity of examin- 

 ing the plants on the banks of these rivers, passing along a por- 

 tion of the ancient kingdom of Malava (Malwa) on the east of 

 the Yamuna river, near the Ken (Cainas PLINII) and Chumbul 

 rivers, and then proceeding through the centre of the ancient 

 kingdom of Kuru, which, in the earlier part of the Hindu govern- 

 ment, was the chief seat of power and glory, restored to it after- 

 wards by the Muhammedan conquest, and only lately restored to 



