ON THE FIRST OF MAY WILL BE PUBLISHED 



A WORK, 



ENTITLED 



PLANTS JAVANICE RARIORES, 



DESCRIPT.E ICONIBUSQUE ILLUSTRATE 



QUAS IN INSULA JAVA, ANNIS 1802—1818, LEGIT ET INVESTIGAVIT 



THOMAS HORSFIELD, M.D. 



E SICCIS 



DESCRIPTIONES ET CHARACTERES PLURIMARUM ELABORAVIT 



J. J. BENNETT; 



OBSERVATIONS STRUCTURAL! ET AFFINITATES PR/ESERTLM 

 RESPICIENTES PASSIM ADJECIT 



ROBERTUS BROWN. 



PROSPECTUS. By Dr. Horsfield. 



In the Work, the plan of which is now submitted to the notice of the 

 Public, it is proposed to give Descriptions and Figures of the more re- 

 markable new or imperfectly known Plants, contained in an Herbarium 

 of Two Thousand Species, collected by Dr. Horsfield, and placed by him 

 in the Museum of the Honourable East India Company. 



A residence of more than sixteen years in Java, and occasional visits to 

 the neighbouring Islands of the Indian Archipelago, enabled Dr. Horsfield 

 to bring together a considerable number of objects of Natural History, and 

 likewise to collect a body of miscellaneous information regarding the Pro- 

 ductions and Inhabitants of those regions. Although his opportunities of 

 research were favourable, he was in a great measure destitute of the means 

 of determining with precision the names and characters of the subjects col- 

 lected, which were therefore brought to England in an imperfectly arranged 

 state. The specimens composing his Herbarium were carefully disposed 

 and numbered as they were successively collected in his travels, chiefly with 

 the view to preserve an accurate record of their localities, of their respective 

 elevation above the level of the ocean, of the soil in which they grow, and 

 of such other particulars as were considered requisite for giving a general 

 view of the geographical distribution of the Plants of Java. 



On Dr. Horsfield's arrival in England the Zoological Collections required 

 his first attention, both with a view to their preservation, and to their ex- 

 hibition in the Honourable Company's Museum. It was therefore no less 

 advantageous to himself than important to science, that Robert Brown, Esq., 



