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owe: ‘mention this the more readily, because we have occasionally observ- 
ed that foreign botanists, in translating passages from the Flora into 
Latin, have, from not attending to the above circumstance, and from 
= . mot correcting before translating, given a total perversion of the sense 
originally intended. 
<- Dr Carey and Dr Wallich edited and published the first volume (in- 
cluding all from Monandria to the end of Tetrandria) in 1820 ; and the 
second (containing nearly all Pentandria-Monogynia) in 1824 ; both are 
enriched with many new species deseribed by Wallich :: no more of that 
edition has appeared. At length Captains James and Bruce Roxburgh, 
. sons of Dr Roxburgh, perceiving that new botanists were daily starting 
up in India, whose labours might abridge the hard-earned and well de- 
© served, although still hidden, laurels of their father, determined on giving 
to the world the Flora Indica as left by Dr Roxburgh. This work is in 
three volumes, and made its appearance in 1832: the first volume con- 
tains from Monandria to nearly the end of Pentandria-Monogynia, and 
corresponds precisely to the two volumes of the former edition, but omits 
_ the new species added by Dr Wallich : the second includes the remain- 
. der of Pentandria, and Polyandria-Polygynia, with the other interme- 
. diate classes and orders: the third commences with Didynamia, and 
. eonchides with Diccia. In the advertisement to the first volume it is 
i: 4 stated that the work was to be completed in four volumes, while, from. 
the preface to the third, we fear that it is already finished : the Ferns, 
and the few species referred by Roxburgh in the Hortus Bengalensis, or 
Catalogue of the Calcutta Garden, to Polygamia, are, however, still want- 
ing. From this edition we have derived the greatest benefit : the third 
volume only reached us while correcting the proof of the sheet contain- 
ing Rhamnee, so that our elucidation of the Malvaceé may not be so 
perfect as we could haye desired. The impression appears to have been 
very limited, and few copies have found their way to Europe. 
But not only did Dr Roxburgh describe the plants he observed, but 
he had at the same time splendidly coloured drawings made of most of 
them. These, upwards of 2000 in number, he presented to the East - 
India Company: from them a selection of 300 was allowed to be made, 
. . and ordered to be published by the Court of Directors, under the su- 
|. perintendence of Sir Joseph Banks : this magnificent work, entitled The 
. Plants of Coromandel, was commenced in 1795 and completed in 1816, 
| in three enormous volumes. In the first, at t. 32, the plant named 
—— Roxburghia is introduced, which has given rise to the following injudi- - 
-cious remark by De Theis in his Glossaire du Botanique, p. 407. “ W. 
Roxburgh, ‘Ecossois, a publié, en 1795, un ouvrage sur les plantes de la 
. eóte de Coromandel, dans lequel lui-même a établi ce genre. C'est un - 
. usage generalement établi, que les botanistes se dedient reciproquement - 
