SOME ACCOUNT*, be 
May 11 and 12, 1783. Road to Buxadaar b . 
The tract of country from Bahar c to the foot of the hills, contains 
but few plants that are not common to Bengal. Pine-apples, mango 
tree, jack and saul timber, are frequently to be met with in the forests 
and jungles. Find many orange trees towards the foot of the hills, of 
a very good sort, and bearing much fruit. Saw a few lime trees, and 
found three different species of the sensitive plant. One species is used 
medicinally by the natives of Bengal, in fevers ; it is a powerful astrin¬ 
gent, and bitter: another, is the species from which terra japonica is 
made; a medicine,, the history of which we are but lately made ac¬ 
quainted with. The third species is well known as the sensitive plant, 
and common in Bengal. 
The country, from Bahar to the foot of the mountains, to which we 
* Printed in the Philosophical Transactions, Vol. LXXIX. 
N. B. The orthography of the names of places in the following pages differing, in 
some instances, from what has been adopted in the foregoing work, the mode hitherto 
made use of, resulting from example, analogy, and attentive observation, when a vari¬ 
ation occurs, is always noted at the bottom of the page. 
b Buxadewar. c Cooch Bahar. 
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