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^ Catalogue of Indian JMedicinal Plants and Dnigs'^ 



with their Js^ames in tJie Hindustani and 



Sanscrit Languages. 



By JOHN FLEMING, Esq. M. D. 



JL HE following catalogue is intended chiefly for the use of gentlemen 

 of the medica,! profession on their first arrival in tndiay to whom it must 

 be desirable to know what articles of the Materia Medica this country 

 -affords, and by vdiat names they may find them. 



The systematic names of the plants are taken from Willdenow's editfon 

 -of the Species Plantarum L. with the exception of some new species, not 

 included in that work, which have been arranged in the system, and de- 

 scribed by Dr. Roxburgh ; who, with his usual liberality, permitted me to 

 transcribe their specific chara61ers and trivial names from his manuscript. 



In ascertaining and fixing the Hindustani and Sanscrit names which 

 correspond to the systematic, a point of considerable difficulty, but cssen- 



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