170 MR. D. OLIVER, JUN., ON THE 
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The Indian Species of Utricularia. By DANIEL Onde, Esq., 
Jun., F.L 8. 
[Read Dec. 16, 1858.] 
Зомк few months ago Dr. J. D. Hooker was kind enough to 
entrust to me, for arrangement, the very valuable collection of 
Utricularias brought together by himself and Dr. Thomson during 
their recent Indian journeys, with also an ample series of the 
Southern and Ceylon species collected by the late Dr. Stocks, 
and the numerous excellent botanists whose contributions are 
acknowledged by the authors of the * Flora Indica’ and the ‘ Pre- 
cursores. In addition to these, moreover, I may mention the 
important series in Griffith's extensive herbarium, until recently 
in the keeping of the East India Company, but now, through the 
exertions of Dr. Hooker, in course of arrangement at Kew. 
From the excessive entanglement of the nomenclature of this 
interesting genus, at least of its Indian members, I found it 
needful thoroughly to re-examine nearly every form, and to work 
them up in the first place almost de novo, irrespective of their 
literature; and it is in the trust that the views which I have 
felt myself required to adopt, as to the limitation, &c. of the 
species, may serve as а stepping-stone to their more complete 
illustration, that I venture to lay before the Linnean Society the 
result of my inquiries. А few species from the temperate region 
of the Himalaya are new, and especially demand publication, from 
their common peculiarities. 
In the elaboration of these plants, I have derived great advan- 
tage from the herbaria of Sir William J. Hooker, of G. Bentham, 
and Dr. Wight, which have been most freely placed at my ser- 
vice; these, with our Wallichian and Smithian collections, and 
the important fasciculi preserved in the British Museum, have 
been invaluable in determining their synonymy, otherwise quite 
inextricable, as well as their range in respect not only to varia- 
tion in form, but also of geographical distribution within the 
borders of the Indian empire. Unfortunately, the insufficiency of 
material, particularly as to North Australian and African species, 
and, to some extent, to those of the Eastern Archipelago, pre- 
cludes any satisfactory working-out of their general distribution ; 
and upon this head, from the importance of absolute accuracy in 
the identification of species, I feel it the safest course to say but 
little. I have especially to congratulate myself on the ample 
