t'Hfcl ^oi^ ^ ifcJ «iii u^ ;?iiH ani'msji t^i>ii ^^^ ^^i ^i c\ "^^t^a oy^i^ ili"^i>ii 



aniMeil \Ci,^ an^ <3*=H tl^l6l=(l»>ll cI"H9V sjl^loi^ivii a>l ^iri^li il^ii^i «i«ll»ll anw^wi 



aHl'Miajl iH^jflH aniii fi^l^l etci^MQcft ?llH i)ll(a i^cll 4<Al, c^^ll 5ii3il'H5ii3i onHSJIl 



^i5i<n 5i(iii<:t<ni 4di. an^ clni "hR^i^Ii^i ^tUi^i ci ?livi>ii gi-uiiH h^^xi ^ni. cl^li >iitH 



«l»i%"H(cl»li <\.M. «li9[l 51^1 R^cll '^ cliil«(l ^t'^.lH aHH2icll »l(i ^cll. -Hej «l^ %lUUll 

 «l»l%M(ci «iy clMiyl Ci^H JjRrtl 4ctl ^^ ft«il8iT5li ^H9/ «(l«l 5:3^1^511^ o/3l<H^i 

 ^icll %tl«l "^^^tl €^5j =1'1%'h(cI c\m^ il^H^ sJ^lOlMl^l cl^ ^ll'l SHfMcll 4<ni. («l«ll %i'Hl- 

 €»! i^sil'tl aHl4l "Hvifcl^l «41<H ^Ri^l "^^XMI^ H^<Hl^L ^IM 2l^?ll ^, =^ ^Sll «llcl 

 ^. "H^ ^h =yi5i<v (q^ici ( Mr. F. Gell. B. A. Cambridge ) (nai*icl«(l ani i*l>ii 

 ani^l anmi ■'ifSi-H (i^%«ll'l'{l cIWH et't^'ufcl^l ©iin^q (practical) aH<>J4l%l >!<l 



By Natives of India alone can Botanical science be pursued in India 

 with the same success which has attended the eflForts in this direction of 

 Europeans in Europe. Botany is not of course merely a Nomenclature. But 

 before it can be entered upon as a science, common plants must be known 

 and discriminated by their names. Perhaps there are not half a dozen men 

 in the Presidency, who could go into any ordinary ghaut jungle, and tell 

 its trees and plants by their leaves alone. But more labourers in the field 

 of Botanical Research are urgently required in india: and they must be 

 drawn from the ranks of the educated Natives. Half a dozen men excepted, 

 little, apparently, is known of the great Vegelable Kingdom by those whose 

 deepest mysteiies nevertheless require the juice of a rare jungle plant; 

 (Sarcostemma Viminale says Dr. Haug, is the true "Soma" of the 

 Veds.) but many of whom are still content to feel an ignorant contempt 

 for " the jungle," with all of Wonder and of Wisdom which it contains. It 

 will be a day of real progress in India, which sees the educated Brahmin 

 going forth into that jungle, to learn deeper lessons from it, than even the 

 most eloborate of soma sacrifices can teach him, in a "spirit of love and 

 of a sound mind;" and he may perhaps find that many a despised dweller 

 in its recesses has a knowledge of its plants and animals, and of other things 

 besides, which he and all his educated fellow-countrymen would do well to 

 respect and utilize. The great Mountstuart Elphinstone, being found, late in 

 life, attentively sitting amid students, to learn to the last whatever was to 

 be learnt: and India will be great, in what constitutes true greatness, when 

 her greatest men are not ashamed to do the like." 



Villi «i=u^i 'li'-Hi \^ ani-Hiaji liU itn^^n oi^*ti ^m-^i iU v{^r »i(4 sim ! I !^ 



