vi PRKFACK. 



Volumes published in 1820 and 1824, leaving out Dr. Wallich's 

 Notes and Additions, and then to complete the work as originally 

 left in Manuscript by the Author. These then are briefly the rea- 

 sons which induced the Publication of the " Flora" in its present 

 shape ; whether the public will have really cause to be dissatisfied, 

 is not for an individual to decide. The undersigned would mere- 

 ly remark, that had the " Floka Indica" been published with 

 Dr. Wallich's Additions, the quantity of matter would undoubt- 

 edly have been greatly increased, and so would the price of the 

 Work. It now comprises in three Volumes the greater part of the 

 productions of Hindoostan, Bengal and the Dukshin, including the 

 Coasts, while with Dr. Wallich's additions it would have also em- 

 braced those of Nepal and Ava, and some subsequent discoveries in 

 Bengal and Hindoostan. The bulk and price of the work in the 

 latter case, would have probably been just double what it at pre- 

 sent is ; — the Public will best decide upon the merits of the two 

 plans. 



The friends of Dr. WalHch, among whom the writer of this Pre- 

 face would include himself, will not, it is presumed, be disposed to 

 lay much stress upon the circumstance of his labours having been 

 unavailable in the present instance, as they are doubtless sensible 

 that his extensive Researches in the Territories of Ava and Nepal, 

 are of themselves capable of furnishing ample materials for a sepa- 

 rate Publication. The undersigned desires in conclusion to take 

 this opportunity to convey to the Reverend Dr. Carey, the grateful 

 sense entertained by his brother Captain Bruce Roxburgh (who 

 has recently embarked for Europe) and himself, of the ready kind- 

 ness with which the editing of the " Flora Indica" was under- 

 taken, without which proof of his continued attachment to the me- 

 mory of the Author, the result of his many years study and labour 

 must have lonsjer remained in oblivion. 



Agra, 

 7//i Sept. 1832 



JAMES ROXBURGH. 



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