The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany 
Vol. VII, No. 6, December, 1912. 
ROXBURGH'S HORTUS BENGALENSIS. 
By C. B. Robinson. 
(From the New York Botanical Garden, New York, U. S, A.) 
Carey's introduction to this work is dated June 4, 1814, and 
shows that the text had already been printed;^ the title-page is 
dated 1814. Consecutively paged after the Hortus Bengalensis, 
is "A Catalogue of Plants, described by Dr. Roxburgh, in his 
Mss. Flora Indica, but not yet introduced into the Botanical 
Garden." Although its title-page is dated 1813, it must have 
been printed after the Hortus Bengalensis, of which it prac- 
tically forms a part, and it appears safe to keep the accepted 
date, 1814, as that of publication of both. 
Together, these contain nearly 4,000 binomial names, and it 
has been customary to consider either, that all such as appear 
for the first time are therein published, or that none of them are 
deserving of such recognition. A brief consideration of four 
cases, each typical of many, will be sufficient to show that the 
binomial names of the Hortus Bengalensis fall into at least four 
classes. 
Systematic namea^ 
Synonyvta & 
Remarks, 
1 
1 
Native 
place. 
Donors and 
time, &c. 
Dura- 
tion & 
habit. 
Time of 
fiowering. 
Time of 
seed. 
CANNA, 
fflauca 
America.. 
i 
India. &c . 
Peffu I 
Moluccas . 
W. Hamilton. 
Esq. 1799. 
1795- 
H. E. 
h E. 
T/E. 
C.s. 
R.S. 
H. S. 
R. S. 
0. D. C. S. 
C.S. 
7-8, 
PHRYNIUM. 
dichotomum* R. 
spieattim, R. 
GRATIOT A. 
amara, R. 5. 
H, Seet^xl-patee. 3. 
1 
Mr. F. Carey, 
1809. 
H.C. 1800 
1 it 
In examining the catalogue, several errors in 
specific names have been detected 
of it was printed off before this was discovered." 
114346 i 
the terminations of the 
The greatest part 
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