124 E. H. Walsh — Tibetan Language and Recent Dictionaries. [Nov. 



a Portuguese arrived from Bengal, whose name is spelt Partab Bar or 

 Tar. The author proves that this must have been Pietro Tavares, a Portu- 

 guese captain who was at Akbar's court in the same year. Tavares, 

 apparently, deserves the credit of having been the first to introduce 

 Portuguese priests to Akbar. He induced him to send for Egidio or 

 Julian Pereira, the vicar of Satgaon, and then the latter suggested to 

 Akbar that he should send for priests from Goa. It was this which 

 led to Akbar's sending an embassador to Goa, and to the mission of 

 Rodolfo Aquaviva and his companions. Later on the author gives further 

 reasons in support of General Maclagan's identification of Padre Farma- 

 liun, another priest mentioned in the Akbarnamah, with the Greek Sub- 

 deacon Leon Grimon, who probably reached Goa on his way back to his 

 own country from China and from there went to Akbar's court where he 

 appears to have remained for J 3 years. 



2. Some new plants from Eastern Asia. — By D. Prain. 



(Abstract. ) 

 This paper contains descriptions of one genus and ten species pre- 

 viously undescribed or imperfectly characterised . They are as follows : — 

 Convolvulacej: : Erycibe albiflora Hallier f . ; E. Henryi Prain; E. 

 Forbesii Prain ; E. leucoxyloides sp. nov. ; E. sapotacea Hallier f. and 

 Prain ; E. citriniflora Griff. ; E. Wallichii Prain and Hallier f. ; E, 

 magnifica Prain ; Lettsomia sphserocephala Prain. Labiate : Nosema 

 Prain gen. nov. ; N. capilatum Prain. 



3. The Tibetan Language and Recent Dictionaries. — By E. H. Walsh," 

 I.C.S. 



(Abstract.) 



The paper is divided into two parts. The first part reviews the two 

 Dictionaries that have recently appeared, of the Tibetan Language, name- 

 ly, the Tibetan-English Dictionary compiled by Rai Sarat Chandra Das 

 Bahadur, and Revised by Rev. G. Sandberg and Rev. A. W. Heyde, and 

 published by the Bengal Government, and the Tibetan-Latin-French 

 Dictionary of the Catholic Missionaries compiled by the Rev. A. Desgo- 

 dins, published at Hongkong. It reviews the Dictionary of Rai Sarat 

 Chandra Das and compares it with the Dictionary of Father Desgodins 

 and compares them both with the previous Dictionary of Jaschke with 

 regard to the new matter contained by each. 



These two Dictionaries have been compiled independently, and from 

 materials collected from independent sources. That of Father Desgodins 

 appeared shortly before that of Rai Sarat Chandra Das, and it would 



