iii the Bhavaprakasa ; the A.mrita-stigar, a Hindi translation of a 



treatise on Sanskrit medicine ; and Kesava-binoda-bhasa 

 Nirghantu, a Hindi treatise on therapeutics translated from the 

 Sanskrit by Pandit Kesava-prasada Dvivedi of the Agra College. 

 The scientific equivalents of these Sanskrit and vernacular 

 terms have been gleaned chiefly from Roxburgh's Flora Indica, 

 Jameson's Report on the Botanical garden of the North- West 

 Provinces for 1855, O'Shaughnessy's Bengal Dispensatory, 

 Powell's Report on Punjab Products, etc. The translations of 

 these writers have been verified, whenever it was practicable to 

 do go, by identifying the plants in the Royal Botanic Gardens. 

 The rest have been given chiefly on the authority of Roxburgh 

 after carefully comparing his descriptions with the characters 

 assigned to them by Sanskrit writers. Some plants, the identi- 

 fication of which was doubtful, have been omitted from the list. 

 The scientific names of many of these plants have been ascertained 

 for the first time, by Dr. King, after examination of specimens 

 procured by me. Dr. King has also furnished the reoent botanical 

 names of numerous planta the old names for which have now 

 become obsolete. With regard to the spelling of the Sanskrit 



terms, I should mention that professor H. H. 



vernacular 



Wil 



or as it is now sometimes 



called the Hunterian System, has been adopted, so far as is 

 necessary to arrive at the correct pronunciation of the words, bub 

 the minute distinctions between the two varieties of the dental 

 and palatal S, the four varieties of N, and the long and short 

 sounds of some of the vowels, which are not always practically 

 obserred in pronouncing them, have not been insisted upon in 

 correcting the proof-sheets. The vernacular terms have been for 

 the most part, spelt as they are written in standard Bengali and 

 Hindi dictionaries. The spoken language varies so muoh in 

 different parts" of the country and among different closses of 

 people, that it would be hopeless to attempt any thing like a 

 complete vocabulary of nameB as pronounced by the people of the 

 different provinces of which Hindi and Bengali are the 

 vernaculars. 



One great peculiarity of the Sanskrit language consists in its 

 having numerous synonyms for material objeote, and medicines 





