Crossword-Solution: BIKH 4 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Amongst the herbs were many of great interest, as a rhubarb, and _Aconitum palmatum,_ which yields one of the celebrated "Bikh" poisons.* ["Bikh" is yielded by various _Aconita._ All the Sikkim kinds are called "gniong" by Lepchas and Bhoteeas, who do not distinguish them.

CHAPTER VII Continue the ascent of Tonglo—Trees—Lepcha construction of hut—Simsibong—Climbing-trees—Frogs—Magnolias, etc.—Ticks—Leeches—Cattle, murrain amongst—Summit of Tonglo—Rhododendrons—_Skimmia_—Yew—Rose—Aconite—Bikh poison—English genera of plants—Ascent of tropical orders—Comparison with south temperate zone—Heavy rain—Temperature, etc.—Descent—Simonbong temple—Furniture therein—Praying-cylinder—Thigh-bone trumpet—Morning orisons—Present of Murwa beer, etc.

Amongst the herbs were many of great interest, as a rhubarb, and _Aconitum palmatum,_ which yields one of the celebrated “Bikh” poisons.[60] Of European genera I found _Thalictrum, Anemone, Fumaria,_ violets, _Stellaria, Hypericum,_ two geraniums, balsams, _Epilobium, Potentilla, Paris_ and _Convallariæ,_ one of the latter has verticillate leaves, and its root also called “bikh,” is considered a very virulent poison.

What's to be done? Can you think of any way of taking the fish, Ossaroo?" "Ah! Sahib," replied the shikarree, "give me bamboo, me soon make net to takee fish--no bamboo--no net--no matter for net--Ossaroo poison the water--get all da fish." "What! poison the water? how would you do that? Where is the poison?" "Me soon find poison--bikh poison do." "`Bikh' poison--what is that?" "Come, Sahib! me show you bikh plant--plenty grow here." Both Karl and Caspar rose and followed the shikarree.

There are many species of the plant found in different parts of the world, and nearly a dozen kinds in the Himalaya Mountains themselves; but the one pointed out by Ossaroo was the _Aconitum ferox_ of botanists, the species from which the celebrated "bikh" poison of the Hindoos is obtained.