AN 



ENGLISH INDEX 



TO 



THE PLANTS OP INDIA. 



COMPILED BY 



H. PIDDINGTON, 



Foreign Secretary, Agricultural and Horticultural Society. 



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

 losses, bothe of precious tyme and lucre. Fyrste, thatt wee coulde never aske in 

 r Indian tongues for suche herbes, or fruites, woodes, burkes, or gummes, as wee 

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

 (many of our crewe lyinsre 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 Gentooes, 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-i and voyages, and trafficker, inforaygne countryes, in the Shippe Tamburlan. 

 Land. MSS. fol. 1634. 



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1832. 



