Thirty-five years in the East. Adventures, discoveries, experiements, and historical sketches, relating to the Punjab and Cashmere; in connection with medicine, botany, pharmacy, etc. Together with an original materia medica; and a medical vocabulary, in four European and five eastern languages:

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2Page.

3649. Cure uma Zedoaria, names (Bun-

4huldi, Beng.andJudwar, Arab.)

5I believe are wrong.

6652. Putchuk root is of unknown origin

7— It is a monopoly of the Cash-

8merean Government.

9661. Hermodactyli. “Their origin is

10unknown, but they are doubt-

11less referable to some species of

12Colchicum.” The mild kind is

13imported in India from Arabia ;

14the bitter species, however,

15comes from Cashmere, and is

16said to flower in spring ; not

17so Colchicum autumnale.

18671. Gillur ke putta (goitre leaf) is a

19species of Laminaria, said to be

20L. saccharina ; it is imported in

21Tndia, vid Thibet, probably from

22the Caspian Sea.

23688. “ There are three kinds of musk,

24the Chinese, Russian, and Bok-

25harian." The Cashmerean, Thi-

26betan, or Himalayan, is not

27Page.

28mentioned ; to these kinds, that

29which I have found in the

30Punjab may be added.

31759. Aood-i-kimaree> (not 257) 275.

32760. Bauhinia place is behind Battery,

33p. 761.

34762. Bitumen , (not 602) 692.

35765. Chlor, should be after Chi.

36771. Galbanum , should be after Ga-

37langal.

38772. Gummi gutta, (not 23) 236.

39773. Hedychium , should be before He-

40dysarum.

41782. 783. Palanga , Palmate ( Panda -

42rate and Pastinaca Opoponax ,

43are repeated) the four not in

44their place.

45783. Phy salts Alkekengi , flexuosa, som-

46nifera; the latter (not 877)

47466.

48785. Portia tree, its place is 784, and

49Portlandia 785 not necessary,

50as it is in its place 784 ; other

51pages also are not in order.

52CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS

53TO THE BENGAL P H A RM ACOPCE I A OF 1844.

5418. Tribulus terrestris grows in Cash-

55mere also.

5623. Indigofera Anil is cultivated also

57in Moultan, Bahawulpore, &c.

5823. Glycirrhiza Glabra. Persia and

59Thibet.

6024. Butca frondosa. Punjab.

6129. Rosa centifolia. Ilindostan and j

62Punjab.

63•37. Ferula Asafoctida. Afghanistan

64and Thibet.

6540. Sambucus adnata and Ebulis.

66Cashmere.

6741. Rubia tinctorum. Bassora.

6841. Rubia Munjista. Banu and Tank

69(cultivated) Cashmerean moun-

70tains (wild).

7143. Lactuca sativa. Punjab.

7244. Taraxacum and Cichorettm. Pun-

73jab and Cashmere.

7415. Achillea Millefolium and Tan (tee-

75turn vulgare. Cashmere.