The Useful Plants of India: With Notices of Their Chief Value in Commerce, Medicine and the Arts

An increasing demand for everything relating to the vegetable productions of India has of late years been the means of eliciting from various quarters much useful information, tending to a more extensive acquaintance with, as well as improvement of, the natural resources of the country. The short descriptions, which it is hoped are sufficient to identify the plants enumerated, are taken from the best authorities; and in this, as in every other instance, I have acknowledged the sources from whence I have drawn my varied information. At the same time, it will be found that some new facts have been adduced, drawn from personal observation or inquiry, especially regarding plants growing in Travancor.