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III. Descriptions of some unpublished Species of Plants from North-Western 
India. By M. Pakenuam EpcEwonrn, Esq., 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 Scrophularinee and Labiate in his monographs of those fami- 
lies in the forthcoming volumes of DeCandolle’s ‘ Prodromus, and likewise 
the Leguminose in his examination and revision of that extensive family. The 
Acanthacee have been sent to Professor Nees von Esenbeck ; and the remain- 
der of the Corolliflore, from Bignoniacee onwards (according to the arrange- 
ment in DeCandolle’s * Prodromus’), were sent to M. DeCandolle himself ; 
the Graminec 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. Royles 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 Oxy- 
baphus. E. 
In a few instances I have described plants tiri named, but without 
