The Natural Productions of Burmah: Or Notes on the Fauna, Flora, and Minerals of the Tenasserim Provinces and the Burman Empire (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Natural Productions of Burmah: Or Notes on the Fauna, Flora, and Minerals of the Tenasserim Provinces and the Burman Empire

In this way many words are transferred for which there are good vernacular names, and a native has ln his Bible a barbarous word that conveys no idea, while it may be the original designates a flower, that 15 wafting its frag rance within the lattice where he sits reading. This is no fancy sketch. The camphire of the English Bible, the exquisitely fragrant Lawsonia inermis, or henna, is ren dered in one Indian version by camphor, and in another the name is transferred, while the shrub itself 13 growing by the doors of myriads of native houses in both Indias, and for which there are established vernacular names in every Indian language to which I can refer.

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