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III. Descriptions of some unpublished Species of Plants from North- fVestern 

 India. By M. Pakenham Edgeworth, Estj., F.L.S., Bengal Civil Service. 



Read June 3, 1845. 



During a residence of several years in the north-west provinces of Ben- 

 gal, I gradually collected an herbarium amounting to about 2000 species, 

 partly from the plains and partly from Himala ; all the specimens, with a 

 very few exceptions, were collected with my own hands. On my return to 

 England, I gave it, with the exception of a few families mentioned below, to 

 Mr. Bentham, who has kindly undertaken to name and include such as may 

 be new of the Scrophularinece and Lahiatoe in his monographs of those fami- 

 lies in the forthcoming volumes of DeCandoUe's ' Prodromus,' and likewise 

 the Leguminosce in his examination and revision of that extensive family. The 

 Acanthacece have been sent to Professor Nees von Esenbeck ; and the remain- 

 der of the Corollijiorce, from Bignoniacece onwards (according to the arrange- 

 ment in DeCandoUe's * Prodromus'), were sent to M. DeCandoUe himself; 

 the Graminece to Messrs. Ruprecht and K. von Meyer at St. Petersburgh ; 

 and the few Carices I had to Dr. Boott. The remainder has been compared 

 by Mr. Bentham with his herbarium, and such species as appeared new have 

 been carefully examined by me again from the dried specimens. Of most I 

 had descriptions, more or less detailed, made from the fresh plant, and they 

 have been since compared, as far as practicable, with Dr. Royle's and Dr. 

 Wallich's herbaria. Some of those now published are remarkable as offering 

 new forms, as for example, a Clematis with bearded filaments and introrse 

 anthers; an Inula with white flowers and the habit of an Aster; and a Com- 

 melyneous plant with a twining stem : others, as being Indian species in 

 genera hitherto considered exclusively American, as Adenocaulon and Oocy- 

 haphus. 



In a few instances I have described plants previously named, but without 



