JOHN FLEMING, M.D. 303 



the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh and of the Horticultural Society, 

 and a roember of the Asiatick Society. 



Fleming, "whose knowledge of the science of Botany justly 

 demands this tribute," is commemorated by Eoxburgh in the 

 genus Flemingia, published in his PlaJits of Coromandd, iii, 44 

 (1819). It would appear from Wallich's List (nn. 4361, 4364) 

 that Roxburgh had in his herbarium given the name to Canscora 

 diffusa. The publication of the genus, however, dates from 

 Alton's Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv, 349 (1812), where it standsas 

 " Flemifigia. Roxb. Corom. 3," and is followed by the description 

 of six species, five of which are similarly referred. Only two of 

 these, however, were actually described in the Plarits of Goromandel. 

 and there with English descriptions only, the diagnoses in Hort 

 Kew. being in Latin : all are in Flora hidica iii, 337-342. The 

 genus does not appear in the Solander MSS. on which Hort. Kew. 

 is so largely based ; it seems likely that the descriptions were 

 supplied from Roxburgh's MSS. by Robert Brown, who was 

 largely responsible for the Lcguminosce in the second edition of 

 that work.* It may be noted that one of the species (/. c. 338) 

 is described as ''F. prostrata Roxb. Jun." : this seems to indicate 

 that it was added by James Roxburgh, who wrote the preface to 

 the volume, though I w^as not previously aware that either he or 

 his brother John, who may possibly be intended, had pubhshed 

 species. 



Roxburgh was intimately acquainted with Fleming, as is 

 shown by the memorandum already quoted, which I think bears 

 some relation to the large collection of Indian drawings formed 

 by the latter. This collection is now incorporated in the arranged 

 series of plates in the Department of Botany, by which it was 

 purchased in 1882 : it was then in thirteen folio volumes. The 

 drawings are mainly by native artists and include copies of many 

 of the plates in the Plants of Coroviandel, which were probably 

 made from the originals for that work.f They are named by 

 Fleming, sometimes on the back ; localities are sometimes added 

 taken apparently from pubhshed descriptions. I find in my notes 

 a statement that Fleming collected in the Punjaub whichi ; 

 probably correct, though I cannot find a reference for it : apart 

 from this I have no knowledge of him as a collector. 



BOTANICAL RESEARCH. 



Dr. Render's Presidential Address to the Botanical Section 

 of the British Association at Newcastle was mainly occupied with 

 considerations as to the course of action to be taken after the war. 

 He pleaded for the closer relation of botany with agriculture and 



• See "History of Alton's ' Hortus Kewensis ' " (Journ. Bot. 1012, Supp. 



iii. P- 7). J • 1 , 



t On this point reference may be made to my paper on Hardwicke s 

 Botanical Drawings in Journ. Bot. 1906, 238, whence some of the above infor 

 joation is taken, 



