An Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Prajna Quest

"•Buxadewar. ' Cooch Bahar.3DSOME ACCOUNT^ h-c.May II and 12, 1783.Road to Buxaduar^.1 HE tract of country from Bahar° to the foot of the hills, containsbut few plants that are not common to Bengal.Pine-apples, mangotree, jack and saul timber, are frequently to be met with in the forestsand jungles. Find many orange trees towards the foot of the hills, ofa very good sort, and bearing much fruit.Saw a few lime trees, andfound three different species of the sensitive plant.One species is usedmedicinally by the natives of Bengal, in fevers; it is a powerful astringent,and bitter: another, is the species from which terra juponica ismade ; a medicine, the history of which we are but lately made acquaintedwith.The third species iswell 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, insome instances, from what has been adopted inthe foregoing work, the mode hithertomade use of, resulting from example, analogy, and attentive observation, when a variationoccurs, is always noted at the bottom of the page.