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Autumnal tints, i. 225 

 Avena fatua, ii. 53 



nuda, ii. 53 

 AzoUa filiculoides, i. 21 



Baber, E. Colborne, i. 221, 244, 250 ; 

 on the white-wax industry, ii. 

 100, 159 

 Baboons, short-tailed, ii. 192 

 Badi-Bawang, i. 167 ; the state of, 



i. 191 ; people, i. 192 

 Bale tea, ii. 95 

 Bamboo, a beautiful species, i. 49 



paper, ii. 75 



rat, ii. 190 



records, ii. 16 



scrub, i. 36, 237, 247 



shoots, edible, i. 237 ; industry in, 

 i. 238 ; preparation of, i. 238 ; 

 collecting, i. 240 ; ii. 62 



the Heavenly, i. 77 



uses of, ii. 16 ; species, 17 

 Bambusa arundinacea, ii. 5, 17, 62 



spinosa, ii. 17 



vulgaris, ii. 18, 62 

 Bambusicola fytchi, ii. 129 



thoracica, ii. 128 

 Banks, Sir Joseph, ii. 46 

 Banyan, the Chinese, i. 62, 99, 228 

 Barley, cultivation of, ii. 52 ; 



varieties, 53 

 Basella rubra, ii. 63 

 Bay-cat, ii. 181 

 Beale, Thomas, ii. 114 

 Bean tree. Red, i. loi 

 Bear, species of, ii. 184 



the Black, ii. 184 



the Parti-coloured, i. 132 ; ii. 182 



the Brown, ii. 188 

 Bears' gall, ii. 188 

 Beech, the Chinese, i. 37 



two species of, i. 43 

 Benincasa cerifera, ii. 57 

 Berchemia Giraldiana, i. 37 



lineata, i. 19 

 Berezovski, M. M., ii. 147, 154, 182 

 Berneuxia thibetica, i. 248 

 Beta vulgaris, ii. 62 

 Betel-chewing, ii. 37 

 Betula luminifera, i. 224 



utiUs, Chinese variety of, i. 47 

 Beyamini, ii. 154 

 Bharal, ii. 145 

 Big creeper, i. 20 

 Birch, woods of, i. 49 

 Birds, game, ii. 107 

 Bitter-tea, ii. 98 

 Blackwood, Bombay, ii. 15 



Chinese, ii. 15 

 Bladder tree, i. 46 



Blandford, Dr., ii. 185 



Blechnum eburneum, i. 129 



Bletia hyacinthina, i. 21 



Boats, native, i. 23 



Bcehmeria nivea, i. 78, 108 ; ii. 75 ; 



fibre of, 82 

 Bombyx mori, ii. 77 

 Bonpa religion, i. 167, 168 

 Bons d'Anty, Monsieur, i. 210, 211 

 Bonvalot, M., ii. 192 

 Botanicon Sinicum, the, ii. 89 

 Brassica campestris, ii. 57 



campestris, var. oleifera, ii. 57, 60 



chinensis, ii. 57 



juncea, var. oleifera, ii. 60 



Napus, var. esculenta, ii. 59 



oleracea, var. caulo-rapa, ii. 59 

 Bretschneider, ii. 89 

 Brick-tea, the industry, ii. 93 ; the 



trade, 95 

 Bridges, bamboo suspension, i. ii8, 

 121, 164 



iron suspension, i. 164 



rope, i. 120, 164 



significance of, i. 164 

 Brinjal, the, ii. 61 

 Brooke, J. W., ii. 147, 154 

 Broussonetia papyrifera, i. 20 ; ii. 74, 



75 

 Brown and Wilden, Messrs., ii. 147 

 Bruang, the Malay, ii. 185 

 Buckwheat, ii. 54 

 Buddleia asiatica, i. 19 



Davidii, i. 123, 124 



Davidii, var. magnifica, i. 124 



officinalis, i. 19 

 Budorcas, i. 132 



taxicolor, var. tibetanus, ii. 158 



tibetanus, i. 251 ; ii. 159 

 Burdock, i. 82 



Butternut, the Chinese, i. 240 ; ii. 30 

 Button tree, i. 74 

 Buxus japonica, ii. 44 



microphylla, i. 41 



stenophylla, i. 19 



Cabbage, varieties of, ii. 56 

 Csesalpinia japonica, i. 19 



sepiaria, i. 19, 33 ; ii. 5 

 Cajanus indicus, ii. 56 

 Callistephus hortensis, i. 142 

 Campanula punctata, i. 58 

 Camphor, Baros, ii. 37 ; Chinese, 37 



tree, i. 95 ; ii. 21 

 Camptotheca acuminata, i. 109, 223 

 Canarium album, ii. 29 

 Canavalia ensiformis, ii. 56 

 Cannabis sativa, i. 108 ; ii. 81 ; oil 



from seeds, 81 

 Cantharellus cibarius, ii. 63 



