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\\\?Jliilagm'itis cambogioidcs, or the Ceylon tree, and of the 

 tree which yields this drug in Cambodia. Laft'v, to deter- 

 mine whether all thofe trees may not be referred to one genus. 



3. To afcertain from what country the root commonlv 

 called columbo is procured, and to give a botanical defcrip- 

 tion and figure of the plant to which it belongs. 



4. The botanical names of plants mentioned in the Hindu 

 books of Materia Medico. 



5. To fupplv the deficiencies which remain in the accounts 

 of the production of borax in the neighbourhood of Tibet 

 and Napal, as delivered by Mr. Blane and Father Jofeph da 

 Ravato in the Philofophical Tranfactions, Vol. LXXVII. 



6. Whether the tobacco plant was known in Afia before 

 the difcovery of America; and whether the edict, faid to 

 have been pubiifhed by Aurunzebe, againft the ufe of thai 

 plant, be authentic ? 



V. Medicine and Surgery. 



T. Hiftory of that peculiar inflammation of the fchneide- 

 rian membrane termed nakra, with the mode of treatment 

 by the natives. 



2. Hiftory of inoculation for the fmall-pox among the 

 Hindus. 



3. Antiquity of the venereal difeafe in India; and the know- 

 ledge which the antient Hindu phyficians had of its cure. 



4. Their treatment of the leprofy ; with Come account of 

 the different fpecies of that difeafe which are met with among 

 the natives of India. 



5. How long have the natives poffeffed the art of couehincr 

 for a cataract, and from what fource did they obtain it? 



VI. Language, Literature. 



1. How many dialects arc there of the H'mduwee, i.e. of 

 languages connected with the Sanfcritj and in what parts of 

 India were they or are they fpoken ? 



2. What genera! term had the natives of India before the 

 Mufulman invafion, to designate what we imply by the term 

 Hindu. 



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