AN 



ENGLISH INDEX 



TO 



THE PLANTS OF INDIA. 



COMPILED BY 



H. PIDDINGTON, 



Foreign Secretary, Agricultural and Horticultural Society. 



" And in this founde wee oftimes muclie trouble and vexation, with moreover 

 losses, bolhe of precious tyme and lucre. Fyrsie, thatt wee coulde never aske in 

 r Indian tongues for snche herbes, or fruites, woodes, barkes, or gummes, as wee 

 Icnewe full well, by expeerience in sundrye other partes, to bee wholesomme, 

 (mnny of our crewe lyinjre sicke at this tyme,) 4 or savorye, or usefulle to trafficke 

 withull. Nexte, thatt when anye were shewne us, we coulde in noewise tell, from 

 names given toe them by Gen tooes, whether or noe | like were alreadye 

 knowne in Europpean countryes : And yett these partes doe myghtylie abounde 

 with herbes and woodes of sovraigne virtew." Master Richarde Kynge^ his tra- 

 vells, and voyages, and traffickes, inforaygne countryes, in the Shippe Tamburlan. 

 Zone/. MSS. fol. 1634. 



Calcutta : 



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 MESSRS. THACKER AND CO. ST. ANDREW'S LIBRARY. 



1832. 



