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e Floras published in the intermediate time, are invariably insert- 
. Hence no work of this kind can be: published, at least in India, 
| sa any well- founded expectation of its being- a profitable specula- 
‘tion. Should any of the relatives of his late friend have an idea of 
_ its being made such in this Anstance, however, the Editor will cheer- : ; 
fully give up to them the whole edition, on their deírayiug the ex- — 
o penses attending its printing and publication. 
To Site acquainted with Botany, it is well known that many 
changes have taken place in the nomenclature of plants, since the 
late Dr. Roxburgh added the final touch: to his manuscripts. 
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many instances whole orders have undergone a complete revision ; 
“genera have been frequently divided into two or three; specific ^ 
names have | been changed ; = — have beem removed from one 
ee er tl Ought it best to publish 
his late friend's cere in state in which he left it; and to 
add in notes such alterations as have been made by botanists with 
whose improvementstibe author was unacquainted, or who have writ. .—— 
ten since his death’ The whole work therefore, corresponds exactly — 
with Dr. Roxburgh's manuscript after it had received his last correcz 
tion, with the exceptions just mentioned, and of such corrections of ` 
the labguage as were necessary, which in no iustance have been suf. 
fered to make any alteration-in the sense, . Benet .P 
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The Editor kels gratified in bearing testimony. to the disinterest- 
ed and highly liberal manner in which Dr. Wallich has. contributed. 
bis assistance throughout the whole of this work ; and to his gene- 
rosity in enriching it with a number of plants described by himself ; : 
end easily to be recognised by the initials N. W.in the first folus 
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The amount of these, especiall y among scitaminezg and grasses would: 
have been much more considerable had there beeh time to insert the u^ 
recent vast accessions of plants, which the Garden has received from 
all parts of India, and which from his earnest solicitude to promote ae 
. i interests of this pleasing and i important science, may be geasono, 
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