PREFACE, xv 
“des plantes; Roxburgh est le premier qui Fait fait pour lui-même :" 
but this eriticism is incorrect, for the name was given not by Roxburgh 
but by Dryander, under Sir Joseph Banks’s direction; Roxburgh, we 
understand, supposed it to be the same with Stemona tuberosa of Lou- 
reiro, to which indeed it appears to be very closely allied. 
Copies of all the unpublished drawings were made on a reduced scale 
by Dr Hooker. These, with that liberality for which our friend is so dis- 
tinguished, have been placed in our hands, a circumstance which must 
stamp a value upon our work which it could not otherwise have enjoy- 
ed: they are accompanied by the temporary manuscript names attached 
by Roxburgh, and not unfrequently also with the native name, and ex- 
tracts from his then unpublished descriptions. Although, therefore, 
Roxburgh afterwards has frequently given names in the Flora Indica 
different from those under which he, had distributed specimens, or had 
sent the drawings and descriptions to the India House, it has been in 
our power in almost every plant to clear up his synonyms with satisfac- 
tion. We trust our excellent friend will accept our thanks, thus pub- 
licly tendered, for this most essential service. 
In 1800 and 1801, Dr Buchanan Hamilton made a * Journey from 
Madras through the countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar," under 
the orders of the Marquis of Wellesley, “ for the express purpose of | 
investigating the state of agriculture, arts, and commerce, the religion, 
manners and customs, the history, natural and civil, and antiquities, in 
the dominions of the Rajah of Mysore:" an account of his observations — — 
was afterwards published in three volumes 4to; this work we have not — 
had an opportunity of consulting. He has also introduced into his Com- 
mentary upon Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus, published in the Linnean 
Society’s Transactions, vols. xiii, xiv, and xv, descriptions of several | 
new Peninsular species : of these we have availed ourselves. : 
Leschenault de la Tour, a French botanist, who accompanied Bandia’s B 
voyage to the Moluccas, Java, and Sumatra, appears to have been ap- 
pointed director of the Botanic Garden at Pondicherry, and to have i 
vestigated some of the southern provinces of the Peninsula: the plan 25 
he collected seem, however, to be chiefly from the Neelgherries, and are — 
principally published by De Candolle in his Prodromus Systematis Na- 
turalis Vegetabilium. 
In 1828, Dr Wallich, who succeeded Dr Roxburgh as superinterident 
of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, arrived in England with an enormous 
number of specimens of plants, which he had been accumulating for se- 
veral years. Here were collections made by himself and those along — 
with him in the Calcutta garden, in Nepaul, in Singapore and Penang, in — 
the Kingdom of Oude, Rohilctind, the Valley of Deyra, Martaban, Ava, — 
&c.: ;ollections i in Silhet by Francis de Silva, i in Kamaon by Robert Blink- 
