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put into it. In the present volume the names of several 

 species and even genera have been revised in accordance 

 with the new Flora, and some species included which are 

 shown by Gamble to occur here, though so far not collect- 

 ed by me: such revisions and additions being acknowl- 

 edged in the text by reference to Gamble's Flora of the 

 Madras Presidency or more shortly G.F.M.P. But the 

 parts so far published of this Flora extend only to the 

 ARALIACE/E, and it is only to be expected that in subse- 

 quent parts many more species and revisions will be 

 shown to apply to our area. No guarantee therefore is 

 implied that all the species have been dealt with, and 

 indeed it is hardly possible in a work of this kind ever 

 to attain finality. For the majority of my readers the 

 value of the work probably consists in the illustrations 

 to the first set of which Lady Bourne contributed so large 

 a share. In the present volume most of the illustrations 

 have been drawn by my wife, Mrs. Harison contributes 

 one, Mrs. E. W. Stoney four, Mr. Gordon Robertson eleven, 

 two unfinished drawings of the Indian artist R. Natesan 

 are now included and the sedges and grasses are mainly 

 by myself. To avoid confusion the plates are numbered 

 consecutively on those of volume II. I also gratefully 

 acknowledge help in the identification of indigenous 

 species, by Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar and Mr- 

 C. Tadulingam of the Agricultural Research Institute, 

 Coimbatore ; and of introduced plants by Messrs. C. C. 

 Calder and V. Narayanaswami of the Botanical Survey of 

 India, Calcutta ; and Sir David Prain, C.M.G., F.R.S., and the 

 staff of the Herbarium at Kew. That the work falls far 

 short of perfection I am only too keenly conscious, but I 

 am in hopes that this illustrated account of the flowering 

 plants will be of interest and use to residents and visitors 

 of these hill stations and the adjoining Planting 

 (iistricts. 



